That Dog Again: 'Melancholia Canina' in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Heffernan, Carol Falvo.

Title
That Dog Again: 'Melancholia Canina' in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
Modern Philology 84 (1986): 185-90.

Description
Functioning in the tradition of "melancholia canina" treatises, Chaucer's dog in BD acts as a catalyst for the melancholy dreamer and enables him to relieve his sorrow.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.