The Reception of Chaucer’s Shorter Poems, 1400-1450: Female Audiences, English Manuscripts, French Contexts.

Author / Editor
Doyle, Kara A.

Title
The Reception of Chaucer’s Shorter Poems, 1400-1450: Female Audiences, English Manuscripts, French Contexts.

Published
Cambridge: Brewer, 2021.

Physical Description
xi, 289 pp.

Series
Chaucer Studies, no. 48.

Description
Combines feminist critical awareness, reception studies, and codicology to explore the construction of Chaucer as "womanis frend" in fifteenth-century manuscript compilations, studying the intertextualities of English and French works, including Anel, BD, HF, PF, Mars, Venus, and TC; works by Machaut, Froissart, Gower, Hoccleve, Pizan, Lydgate, Chartier, Shirley; Chaucerian apocrypha; and more, showing how they reflect awareness of the "female hermeneutic dilemma," i.e., whether to respond to courtly masculine gallantry with belief or skepticism. Focuses on MSS Gg.4.27, Cosin V.ii.13, Additional 16165 and Trinity R.3.20, Tanner 346, and Fairfax 16.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Aneledia and Arcite
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliement of Fowls
Complaint of Mars
Complaint of Venus
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucerian Apocrypha