Gower in Exile.
- Author/Editor
- Fredell, Joel.
- Title
- Gower in Exile.
- Published
- Fredell, Joel. "Gower in Exile." Accessus 7, no. 1 (2022): n.p.
- Review
- Fredell's essay serves as a response to the previous essays in this issue of "Accessus." He frames his response by suggesting "Amans's love complaint is not some hackneyed convention of medieval poetry, but a passionate testimony to terrible pain." Fredell points out how the end of the "Confessio Amantis" is a rupture and an exile--that Amans/Gower has been removed from the realm of love, that his body itself is a sign of exile. He goes on to explain how the realm of love from which Gower has been removed displays the Bohemian fashions made popular by Richard II's first queen, Anne of Bohemia. Finally, he concludes Gower in the CA "confronts the struggle to move forward" and acknowledges that healing is not the end of loss. Loss continues as part of the ghosts of trauma. [JGS. Copyright. John Gower Society eJGN 41.2.]
- Date
- 2022
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis