Though Skelton himself seems to have suffered the oblivion of modern readers, his heroine Elynour Rumming remains popular, and references to her appear in sixteeth- to twentieth-century English writers, from George Puttenham to W.H. Auden. This article analyses the paradox that is at the heart of the critical uneasiness accompanying its popular reception, focussing on the role of the "monstruous" female as the pivot of the poem.
'A mannes courage': perverted portrait of a heroine in John Skelton's The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng
PETRINA, ALESSANDRA
2002
Abstract
Though Skelton himself seems to have suffered the oblivion of modern readers, his heroine Elynour Rumming remains popular, and references to her appear in sixteeth- to twentieth-century English writers, from George Puttenham to W.H. Auden. This article analyses the paradox that is at the heart of the critical uneasiness accompanying its popular reception, focussing on the role of the "monstruous" female as the pivot of the poem.
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