{"product_id":"the-reception-of-chaucers-shorter-poems-1400-1450-9781843845904","title":"The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450","description":"\u003cb\u003eFirst full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular his treatment of women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders have disagreed for centuries about the way Chaucer represented female voices in his \u003ci\u003eHous of Fame\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParliament of Foules\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnelida and Arcite\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLegend of Good Women\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBook of the Duchess\u003c\/i\u003e; 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 \u003ci\u003e fin'amor\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003efin'amor\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Kara A. Doyle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280666341627,"sku":"9781843845904","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843845904.jpg?v=1772487523","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-reception-of-chaucers-shorter-poems-1400-1450-9781843845904","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}