'Paradys or Helle': Pleasure and Procreation in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Everest, Carol (A.)
'Paradys or Helle': Pleasure and Procreation in Chaucer's 'Merchant's Tale'
- Published
- Muriel Whitaker, ed. Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 63-84.
- Description
- The traditional Galenic idea that conception requires female orgasm indicates that May is not pregnant by January. However, implicit and symbolic references to seed and fruit suggest that Damian has impregnated her.
- Alternative Title
- Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale.