Whose Chaucer? On Cecily Chaumpaigne, Cancellation, and the English Literary Canon.
- Author / Editor
- Seal, Samantha Katz.
Whose Chaucer? On Cecily Chaumpaigne, Cancellation, and the English Literary Canon.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 484-97.
- Description
- Reflects on the newly discovered documents in the case of Cecily Champagne, and contends that, regardless of whether Chaucer was to blame, medieval studies and Chaucerian critics remain at fault if they excused Chaucer on account of his poetry. Highlights legacy of feminist scholars and scholarship over the past decades.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
Background and General Criticism