Legible Characters: Forgery, Authenticity, and the Making of the Canon.
- Author / Editor
- Reinbold, Lotte.
Legible Characters: Forgery, Authenticity, and the Making of the Canon.
- Published
- Yearbook of English Studies 53 (2024, for 2023): 115-33.
- Description
- Explores how Alexander Pope's posing of his "Women ben ful of Ragerie" as a Chaucerian work reflects eighteenth-century concerns about literary history and authenticity and "provides us with new ways of understanding how Chaucer was read, established, and understood in the eighteenth century and beyond."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Chaucerian Apocrypha