The Logic of Obscenity in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Delany, Sheila.

Title
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.