Rape in John Gower's Confessio amantis and Other Related Works
- Author / Editor
- Mast, Isabelle.
Rape in John Gower's Confessio amantis and Other Related Works
- Published
- Katherine J. Lewis, Noël James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips, eds. Young Medieval Women (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), pp. 103-32.
- Description
- In Confessio amantis and his other works, Gower avoids the word "rape," perhaps because of its ambiguity, and he presents forced coitus in ways sympathetic to the victim and cognizant of female repression. Mast includes recurrent comparisons with rape in Chaucer's works.
- Contributor
- Lewis, Katherine J., ed.
- Menuge, Noël James, ed.
- Phillips, Kim M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Young Medieval Women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.