Performing Generic Exhaustion: Implosive Households in Gavin Douglas's "Palice of Honour."

Author / Editor
Keller, William R.

Title
Performing Generic Exhaustion: Implosive Households in Gavin Douglas's "Palice of Honour."

Published
Eva von Contzen and James Simpson, eds. Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 135-53.

Description
Examines the role of lists, themes of order and disorder, epistemology and poetics, and tensions between household economy and monetized mercantile accretion (chremastistics) in Douglas's "Palice of Honour" as a response to similar concerns in Chaucer’s HF and his other dream poems. Argues that, especially in Venus's mirror, Douglas exceeds Chaucer's concern with excessiveness and destabilizes the "genre of faculty allegory."

Alternative Title
Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
House of Fame