Quarrels, Rivals, and Rape: Gower and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Dinshaw, Carolyn.

Title
Quarrels, Rivals, and Rape: Gower and Chaucer

Published
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 112-22.

Description
The persistent and untrue story of a "quarrel" between Gower and Chaucer can be explained by the notion of rape. Gower's use of the Philomela legend in Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's use of it in TC suggest that in their "interaction with one another both texts can be fully opened to reveal and resist the violent obliteration of the feminine."

Alternative Title
Wyf Ther Was.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.