The Representation of Gender in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women" and Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Its Relation to Cultural Anxieties in England at the End of the Fourteenth Century.
- Author/Editor
- Canty, R.
- Title
- The Representation of Gender in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women" and Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Its Relation to Cultural Anxieties in England at the End of the Fourteenth Century.
- Published
- Canty, R. "The Representation of Gender in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' and Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'" and Its Relation to Cultural Anxieties in England at the End of the Fourteenth Century." Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Exeter, 1997. Index to Theses, with Abstracts: Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland 47.5 (1998), no. 10628.
- Review
- "By explaining and comparing the treatment of five of the tales about classical women that appear in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' and recur in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' this thesis examines the interrelationships between late fourteenth-century poetry and the socio-political environment of the times. . . . An investigation of the Prologues of both poems . . . introduce[s] the range of issues and material". . . , including "socio-legal consideration of rape ('Philomela') . . . [and] concerns with the female body, female sexual desire and the mechanisms of the marriage market ('Ariadne'). It then considers how a rejection of conventional gender roles in both literary and social spheres is used to articulate anxieties regarding the preservation of noble and national hegemony ('Dido') . . . , broadened out ('Medea' and 'Lucrece') to an examination of both poets' inscription of contemporary political concerns in their tales . . . [and revealing] the gendered poetics and sexual politics that underlie both Chaucerian and Gowerian verse."
- Date
- 1997
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
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