A Note on the Epigraph to Conrad's 'The Rescue'

Author / Editor
Kehler, Joel R.

Title
A Note on the Epigraph to Conrad's 'The Rescue'

Published
English Language Notes 12 (1975): 184-87.

Description
Joseph's Conrad's epigraph to "The Rescue" quotes FranT 5.1342-44, and the two works share concern with "chivalric idealism" and 'amour courtois'." The heroines of the two works are "captives of illusion," and they abandon courtly suitors when directed to these suitors by their husbands. However, Conrad's characters suffer more "complete paralysis of will."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Franklin and His Tale