Towards a Psychosomatic View of Human Nature: Chaucer, Spenser, Burton

Author / Editor
Marchand, Yvette Marie.

Title
Towards a Psychosomatic View of Human Nature: Chaucer, Spenser, Burton

Published
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1999), pp. 123-44.

Description
Traces the development of body-soul relations in Western intellectual tradition as they are reflected in LGW, in book 1 of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene," and in Richard Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy." Uses St. Augustine as a point of departure and assesses the relations among key notions in the literary works: beauty, truth, betrayal, despair, mercy, and remedy.

Alternative Title
Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Language and Word Studies.