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The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450 - Female Audiences, English Manuscripts, French Contexts (Hardcover)
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The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450 - Female Audiences, English Manuscripts, French Contexts (Hardcover)
Series: Chaucer Studies
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First full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal
about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular his treatment
of women. Readers have disagreed for centuries about the way
Chaucer represented female voices in his Hous of Fame, Parliament
of Foules, Anelida and Arcite, Legend of Good Women, and Book of
the Duchess; but little attention has hitherto been paid to the
earliest manuscript contexts in which these poems appear -- a gap
which this study aims to fill. It demonstrates that, even in
unrelated manuscripts, Chaucer's earliest compilers repeatedly
create for these poems a mixed-gender audience well versed in the
lively French poetic conversation about the problem of a lack of
interest on a woman's part: can she legitimately refuse the
advances of her suitor on the grounds that men's fin'amor language
cannot be trusted? By highlighting this French controversy and its
echoes in the English poetry of Chaucer, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Roos,
and others, these manuscript compilers construct a Chaucer who
participates posthumously in an ongoing literary debate about
female voice, female agency, female scepticism, and the false
promises of male fin'amor suitors. This book also expands
understanding of Chaucer's early reception by showing how the
manuscript context of his shorter poems painted a French-centred,
woman-friendly picture of his literary interests - a picture that
some early printers would subsequently find difficult, and, in
extreme cases, actively work to dismiss.
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