Cupid and Venus, Chaucer and Company
- Author/Editor
- Tinkle, Theresa Lynn
- Title
- Cupid and Venus, Chaucer and Company
- Published
- Tinkle, Theresa Lynn. "Cupid and Venus, Chaucer and Company." PhD thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989.
- Review
- "This study argues that the late medieval English poets consistently distinguish Venus and Cupid from each other: Venus represents nonverbal sexual desire and activity, while Cupid is in charge of the "refined" language in which noble lovers express their desire. . . . Chapter 4 posits that John Gower in the Confessio Amantis offers a corrective, demystifying account of the gods' pagan origins." Directed by Henry Ansgar Kelly. [JGN 10.1]
- Date
- 1989
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis