Elegy in Crisis: Experimental Forms and the Influence of the Cult of the Dead in Middle-English Dream-Vision Elegies.
- Author / Editor
- Valeri, Giacomo.
Elegy in Crisis: Experimental Forms and the Influence of the Cult of the Dead in Middle-English Dream-Vision Elegies.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of York, 2019. Dissertation Abstracts International C83.05 (E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses and via https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/29139/; accessed August 18, 2025.
- Physical Description
- 228 pp.
- Description
- Distinguishes elegy and consolation as literary modes, considering the notion of Purgatory as a major underlying feature of the latter. Examines "Pearl" and BD as elegies, reading the latter "as a resistant and secularising monument to suffering that avoids Christian consolation and explores the ambivalence of mourning."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess