Hoccleve’'s "Series" and the Unanticipated Woman Reader.

Author / Editor
Ripplinger, Michelle.

Title
Hoccleve’'s "Series" and the Unanticipated Woman Reader.

Published
Jennifer Nuttall and David Watt, ed. Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches (Cambridge: Brewer, 2022.), pp. 105-23.

Description
Explores Hoccleve's uses of and attitudes toward Christine de Pizan and Chaucer, focusing on Ovidian notions of female readership and how in his"Series" Hoccleve positions Pizan to "speak back to Chaucer" and "asks us to reflect on the Chaucerian defence of poetic wit and fictive play, even as we remain alert to its potential risks and limits." Comments on the apology to women" in ClT.

Alternative Title
Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Clerk and His Tale