The Meaning of 'Incest' in the 'Confessio Amantis'

Author / Editor
Donavin, Georgiana.

Title
The Meaning of 'Incest' in the 'Confessio Amantis'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 53 (1993): 2807A.

Description
MLP and other comments suggest that late-medieval readers were "disconcerted" by Gower's repeated treatments of incest. Examination of his poem reveals him (through Genius) turning Amans from the incestuous love of Venus and Cupid to pure heavenly love.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.