Hoccleve’'s "Series" and the Unanticipated Woman Reader.
- Author / Editor
- Ripplinger, Michelle.
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