Secrecy and Confession in Late Medieval Narrative: Gender, Sexuality, and the Rhetorical Subject

Author / Editor
Gross, Gregory Walter.

Title
Secrecy and Confession in Late Medieval Narrative: Gender, Sexuality, and the Rhetorical Subject

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 1945A.

Description
Secrecy about sex cuts across genres and develops its own forms of rhetoric, as seen in works from Petrarch's "Secretum" through the "Roman de Silence," Margery Kempe, and PardPT.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale.