Reframing the 'Metamorphoses': The Enabling of Political Allegory in Late Medieval Ovidian Narrative

Author / Editor
Gerber, Amanda J.

Title
Reframing the 'Metamorphoses': The Enabling of Political Allegory in Late Medieval Ovidian Narrative

Published
Ph.D Dissertation. Ohio State University, 2011. viii, 298 pp. DAI A73.06 (2012): n.p. Fully accessible via http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1323788507.

Description
Proposes that Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and other contemporaries may have viewed Ovid's work not merely as a source of exempla, but as a rhetorical model for subversive stories.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations