Reading Narratives of Rape : The Story of Lucretia in Chaucer, Gower and Christine de Pizan

Author / Editor
Sylvester, Louise.

Title
Reading Narratives of Rape : The Story of Lucretia in Chaucer, Gower and Christine de Pizan

Published
Leeds Studies in English 31: 115-44, 2000.

Description
Examines how rape narratives explore relationships between literary conventions and the erotic, especially female erotic masochism, homosocial attraction, and the nexus of desire and abject sexuality.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.