Penitential Fictions, the Trial of Courtly Love, and the Emancipation of Story in the 'Legend of Good Women' and the 'Confessio Amantis'
- Author / Editor
- Gould, Cynthia Marie.
Penitential Fictions, the Trial of Courtly Love, and the Emancipation of Story in the 'Legend of Good Women' and the 'Confessio Amantis'
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 2403A.
- Description
- Penitential fictions in Chaucer's LGW and Gower's "Confessio Amantis" critique the amorous code in courtly literature.
- In LGW, Chaucer uses Christian martyrdom to depict his heroine's amorous self-sacrifice as futile.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.