Cities Without Walls: The Politics of Melancholy from Machaut to Lydgate.
- Author / Editor
- Dunlop, Lynn M.
Cities Without Walls: The Politics of Melancholy from Machaut to Lydgate.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Cambridge, 1997. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.19. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; accessed August 24, 2025.
- Description
- Item not seen. From the abstract: "argues that the pose of melancholy was a vital framing fiction in later medieval poetry . . . , investigate[s] the medical, philosophical and religious traditions of melancholy, and . . . trace[s] the political role of the melancholy narrator in vernacular poetry from Machaut to Lydgate." Includes comments on the "political role" of the Machaut-influenced melancholy narrator in BD and the influence of Mel and KnT on Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Knight and His Tale
Tale of Melibee
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Alluion