Fifteenth Century: Fathering Chaucer. Thoreau, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and the Invention of the First English Author

Author / Editor
Galloway, Andrew.

Title
Fifteenth Century: Fathering Chaucer. Thoreau, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and the Invention of the First English Author

Published
Andrew J. Power, ed. The Birth and Death of the Author: A Multi-Authored History of Authorship in Print (New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 32–53; 2 illus.

Description
Explores nuances in the tradition of attributing paternal authority to Chaucer as a poet, focusing on Thoreau, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, and disclosing differing ways in which they represent his authority and appropriate it to assert their own self-authorizations. Includes comments on the ambiguity of literary authority in WBPT.

Contributor
Power, Andrew J., ed.

Alternative Title
Birth and Death of the Author: A Multi-Authored History of Authorship in Print

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Wife of Bath and Her Tale