Desire and the Discourses of Love in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Author / Editor
Charles, Christopher Casey.

Title
Desire and the Discourses of Love in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 3199A.

Description
Studies the ways "expressions of romantic fulfillment are disrupted by the excesses and inconsistencies that desire produces in the narrative developments and rhetorical gestures" of works about love by Chaucer, Montemayor, Sidney, and Shakespeare.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.