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• W2529040074 abstract "Beyond Rome: Mapping Gender and Justice in The Man of Law’s Tale Kathy Lavezzo University of Iowa W ith charming audacity, William Godwin fulfills in his Life of Chaucer (1803) the longing of many a critic to know what the poet and Petrarch would have made of each other had they ever met and, in doing so, gives his readers a startling lesson in premodern cartography . While Petrarch’s status as the literary heir of classical Rome fascinates Chaucer, the English poet, Godwin writes, was interesting to Petrarca for a different reason. He came from the ultima Thule, the penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos (Virgil, Bucolica, Ecl. I); that country which the wantonness of more genial climates had represented as perpetually enveloped in fogs and darkness. To later times the literature and poetical genius of Britain is familiar; no tongue so barbarous, as not to confess us the equals, while in reality we are in intellectual eminence the masters of mankind. But this was a spectacle altogether unknown in the times of Petrarca. The discovery he made was hardly less astonishing than that of Columbus when he reconnoitred the shores of the Western world. . . . [Petrarch] embraced the wondrous stranger from a frozen clime, and forsaw, with that sort of inspiration which attends the closing period of departing genius, the future glories of a Spencer, a Shakespear and a Milton.1 By writing that, from Petrarch’s premodern perspective, Britain was penitus toto divisos orbe or wholly sundered from the entire world, Godwin troubles his readers’ sense of normative Englishness. While for Godwin Versions of this essay were delivered at the University of Iowa and New York University . Special thanks belong to Aranye Fradenburg, David Hamilton, Nicholas Howe, Lynn Staley, Susie Phillips, Harry Stecopoulos, and the anonymous readers at SAC for comments on earlier versions of this essay. 1 William Godwin, Life of Chaucer, vol. 2 (London: Richard Phillips, 1803–4), p. 468. 149 ................. 9680$$ $CH5 11-01-10 12:34:35 PS STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER the English are the intellectual ‘‘masters of mankind,’’ for Petrarch as for Virgil, the English were mankind’s Others, the backward inhabitants of an isle ‘‘enveloped in fogs and darkness.’’ Yet even as Godwin raises the problem of English geographic isolation, he also turns it, through a figure of Roman ‘‘classical greatness,’’ into a sign of English ‘‘future glories.’’ The marginality of England sets the stage for an ‘‘astonishing’’ discovery: the Italian finds on this isolated isle no savage alien, but a ‘‘wondrous stranger.’’ Chaucer’s geographic isolation ultimately signifies not his brutality, but his magnificence.2 In imagining Petarch’s ‘‘astonishing’’ discovery, however, Godwin ignores what is perhaps a still more remarkable characteristic of early English literary history: Chaucer’s consciousness of the premodern reputation of England as an island on the edge of the world. While Godwin displays his own investment in the alterity of the ‘‘father of English poetry,’’ he neglects Chaucer’s own considerable interest in the relationship between strangeness and Englishness. The Wife of Bath’s Tale, for example, uses a character possessed of a fourfold otherness (the ‘‘foul, and oold, and poore’’ hag) to relate an Arthurian legacy to British national identity (line 1063); The Franklin’s Tale allows the pilgrims to imagine ‘‘Engelond’’ as a foreign country (line 810); and The General Prologue depicts Canterbury as a site both identified with the ‘‘straunge’’ and the ‘‘ferne’’ and capable of attracting a national gathering of England ’s populace, ‘‘from every shires ende’’ (lines 13–15).3 Chaucer’s most 2 Godwin’s celebration of Chaucer’s alterity reflects the interest in difference that inspired Romanticism’s medieval revival. The romantic nationalism exhibited in the Life (at one point it celebrates Chaucer for rescuing English from the oppressive dominance of Anglo-Norman) clearly reveals how Godwin had retreated from the radical, proFrench stance he had assumed ten years earlier in his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Thanks belong to Julie Carlson for enlightening me regarding Godwin’s gothic interests and his vexed political history. 3 All quotations are from The Riverside Chaucer, ed. Larry D. Benson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987..." @default.
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