Whose Chaucer? On Cecily Chaumpaigne, Cancellation, and the English Literary Canon.

Author / Editor
Seal, Samantha Katz.

Title
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