Dreaming of Authors, Authoring Dreams: Literary Authorship in the Framed First-Person Allegories of John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas.
- Author / Editor
- Atkinson, Laurie Ray.
Dreaming of Authors, Authoring Dreams: Literary Authorship in the Framed First-Person Allegories of John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation (University of Durham, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International C83.05(E). Fully accessible at http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14081/ (accessed January 30, 2025).
- Physical Description
- 376 pp.
- Description
- "[I]nvestigates the distinctive conceptions of literary authorship of John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas by means of close and comparative readings of their utilisation of a particular form and mode: framed first-person allegory." Recurrent attention to Chaucer as a "predecessor" and his works as "models."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion