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1 online resource |
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Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I: Literary Contexts; Introduction; 1. Chaucerian Fame; 2. Fame and the Advisory Tradition; Part II: Lydgatean Fame; 3. Loose Tongues in Lydgate's England; 4. The Poet's Verdict; 5. Promotion and Self-Promotion; 6. Lydgate's Fortune in the House of Fame; Conclusion: Lydgatean Fame after the Fifteenth Century; Bibliography; Index; Backcover |
| Summary |
John Lydgate is arguably the most significant poet of fifteenth-century England, yet his position as Chaucer's literary successor and his role as a Lancastrian poet have come to overshadow his contributions to English literature. Here, ""fame"" is identified as the key to Lydgate's authorial self-fashioning in Chaucer's wake. The author begins by situating Lydgatean fame within the literary, cultural and political landscape of late-medieval England, indicating how Lydgate diverges from Chaucer's treatment of the subject by constructing a more confident model of authorship, according to which page |
| Notes |
Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2014) |
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? fast |
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Fame in literature.
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English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Medieval.
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English poetry -- Middle English
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Fame in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782040576 |
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1782040579 |
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