Beschreibung:
The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations.
Introduction - Isabel DavisChaucer 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 BlamiresThe Early Reception of Chaucer's The House of Fame - Julia Boffey and A S G EdwardsFame's Penitent: Deconstructive Chaucer Among the Lancastrians - Andrew GallowayAfter Deschamps: Chaucer's French Fame - Stephanie Downes"Fresch anamalit termes": The Contradictory Celebrity of Chaucer's Aureation - Joanna BellisChaucer the Puritan - Mike Rodman JonesRevenant Chaucer: Early Modern Celebrity - Thomas A PrendergastAncient Chaucer: Temporalities of Fame - Jamie C. FumoBibliography