The Logic of Obscenity in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
The Logic of Obscenity in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Florilegium 7 (1985): 189-205.
- Description
- Obscenity exists in LGW to extend the "aesthetic credo" of LGWP, where Chaucer establishes himself "as a poet faithful to the contradictions inherent in nature." Delany argues that obscenity produces a more "natural" view of women than that provided by courtly love or clerical misogyny.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.