Female Consent and Affective Resistance in Romance: Medieval Pedagogy and #MeToo.

Author/Editor
Torres, Sara V.
McNamara, Roberta F.

Title
Female Consent and Affective Resistance in Romance: Medieval Pedagogy and #MeToo.

Published
Torres, Sara V., and Rebecca F. McNamara. "Female Consent and Affective Resistance in Romance: Medieval Pedagogy and #MeToo." New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 2.1 (2021): 34-49. Open access at https://escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedagogyandprofession.

Review
Offers pedagogical strategies for confronting "literary representations of sexual violence" in a range of medieval romances and novelle within story collections, including Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and "Franklin's Tale," and works by Malory, Bocaccio, Gower, and Marguerite de Navarre. Provides "reading approaches, discussion prompts, assignments, and critical contexts" intended to "to position students as critical co-investigators." Gower receives the slightest attention--less than a full paragraph on Thaise in "Apollonius" (pp. 42-43). [MA. Copyright. John Gower Society. eJGN 42.1]

Date
2021

Gower Subjects
Confessio Amantis