Writing, Rewriting, and Disrupting the Anglo-Saxon Past in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Kathleen.
Writing, Rewriting, and Disrupting the Anglo-Saxon Past in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale."
- Published
- Jay Paul Gates and Brian O’Camb, eds. Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England's re-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 195-214.
- Description
- Argues that the rhetorical interjections and repetitions in MLT, read in the context of Trevet's and Gower's versions of the Constance story as "an origin point of English identity," focus attention on questions of myth, literary belief, and historical veracity, and demonstrate the "plasticity of . . . legendary history." Recurrently poses Gower as the target audience for MLT.
- Contributor
- Gates, Jay Paul, ed.
O’Camb, Brian, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England's re-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations