Twisting Lines: Genealogy and Legitimacy in Fifteenth-Century English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Smigen-Rothkopf, David.
Twisting Lines: Genealogy and Legitimacy in Fifteenth-Century English Literature.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Fordham University, 2022.
Open access at ProQuest Dissertations & Theses; accessed November 19, 202).
- Description
- Argues that "evolving discourses of gentility . . . served as models" for Chaucer, Sir Thomas Malory, and Henry Medwall, inspiring them "to write, variably, about socio-linguistic reform . . . and meta-literary reflection on the impact of newly enfranchised voices." Explores the "relationship between social and linguistic mutability" in Sted, Gent, and WBT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Gentilesse
Lak of Stedfastnesse