Clothing Paternal Incest in The Clerk's Tale, Émaré and the Life of St. Dympna
- Author / Editor
- Savage, Anne.
Clothing Paternal Incest in The Clerk's Tale, Émaré and the Life of St. Dympna
- Published
- Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al., eds. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp. 345-61.
- Description
- Despite differences in genre, these narratives include a father who "constructs the circumstances in which he could marry his daughter." Pointedly excluded from consideration in MLP, paternal incest posed in ClT (between Walter and his daughter) is covered over by allegorical interpretation--much as it is disguised by clothing in Emaré and in the Dympna legend.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.