Ambient Media and Chaucer's "House of Fame.”

Author / Editor
Nelson, Ingrid.

Title
Ambient Media and Chaucer's "House of Fame.”

Published
ELH: English Literary History 88 (2021): 551-78.

Description
Argues that, rooted in "medieval theory of mediated perception" and concerned with perceptual distortion, HF shows how a "sensing body" participates in an "ambient mediascape"--one that includes environmental media (air, water, architecture) as well as aesthetic media (painting, engraving, writing).

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame