Chaucer and Fame

Reputation and Reception
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-84384-407-5
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 264 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Chaucer Studies

The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations.

Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval literature: where fame came from, who deserved it, whether it was desirable and how it was acquired and kept. An interest in fame was not new but was renewed and rethought within the vernacular revolutions of the later Middle Ages.
The work of Geoffrey Chaucer collates received ideas on the subject of fama, both from the classical world and from the work of his contemporaries. Chaucer's place in these intertextual negotiations was readily recognized in his aftermath, as later writers adopted and reworked postures which Chaucer had struck, in their own bids for literary authority. This volume tracks debates onfama which were past, present and future to Chaucer, using his work as a centre point to investigate canon formation in European literature from the late Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period.

Isabel Davis is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Birkbeck, University of London; Catherine Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Alcuin Blamires, Julia Boffey, Isabel Davis, Stephanie Downes, A.S.G. Edwards, Jamie C. Fumo, Andrew Galloway, Nick Havely, Thomas A. Prendergast, Mike Rodman Jones, William T. Rossiter, Elizaveta Strakhov.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Isabel

Nall, Catherine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Edwards, A. S. G.

Blamires, Alcuin

Galloway, Andrew

Strakhov, Elizaveta

Davis, Isabel

Fumo, Jamie C.

Bellis, Joanna

Boffey, Julia

Rodman Jones, Mike

Havely, Nick R

Downes, Stephanie

Prendergast, Thomas A

Rossiter, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Isabel Davis
Chaucer Joins the Schiera: The House of Fame, Italy and the Determination of Posterity - William T. Rossiter
"I wolde [.] han hadde a fame": Dante, Fame and Infamy in Chaucer's House of Fame - Nick R Havely
"And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace": Reconstructing the Spectral Canon in Statius and Chaucer - Elizaveta Strakhov
'"I nolde sette at al that noys a grote": Repudiating Infamy in Troilus and Criseyde and House of Fame - Alcuin Blamires
The Early Reception of Chaucer's The House of Fame - Julia Boffey and A S G Edwards
Fame's Penitent: Deconstructive Chaucer Among the Lancastrians - Andrew Galloway
After Deschamps: Chaucer's French Fame - Stephanie Downes
"Fresch anamalit termes": The Contradictory Celebrity of Chaucer's Aureation - Joanna Bellis
Chaucer the Puritan - Mike Rodman Jones
Revenant Chaucer: Early Modern Celebrity - Thomas A Prendergast
Ancient Chaucer: Temporalities of Fame - Jamie C. Fumo
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Rodman Jones, Mike
MIKE RODMAN JONES is Associate Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature in the School of English, University of Nottingham.

Rossiter, William
WILLIAM ROSSITER Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, University of East Anglia.

Boffey, Julia
JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London.

Edwards, A. S. G.
A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.