The "Romance of the Rose": Allegory and Lyric Voice.

Author / Editor
Hult, David F.

Title
The "Romance of the Rose": Allegory and Lyric Voice.

Published
Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 252-69.

Description
Frames Rom "in a lineage of narrative fiction going back to the twelfth-century predecessors of the two authors [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun] and attempts to describe their respective innovations." Includes and interprets various texts before Rom to discuss the progressions of this two-author model, demonstrating Rom’s influence in the texts that follow.

Alternative Title
Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Chaucer Subjects
Romaunt of the Rose
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion