The Paston Women and Chaucer: Reading Women and Canon Formation in the Fifteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Watt, Diane.
The Paston Women and Chaucer: Reading Women and Canon Formation in the Fifteenth Century
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 42 (2020): 337-50.
- Description
- Argues that evidence of female readership drawn from the Paston letters indicates familiarity with works by Chaucer and by Lydgate, as well as popular spiritual writings, devotional works, hagiographies, and chivalric treatises. Emphasizes the importance of "literary culture" rather than "scribal activity" as indicators of the fifteenth-century English literary canon.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion