Waxing Red: Shame and the Body, Shame and the Soul

Author / Editor
Allen, Valerie.

Title
Waxing Red: Shame and the Body, Shame and the Soul

Published
Lisa Perfetti, ed. The Representation of Women's Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005, pp. 191-210.

Description
Uses examples from Chaucer, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and the "Ancrene Wisse" to explore how shame differs for men and women. For men, shame stems from a wide range of cultural experiences associated with chivalry, while women's shame is associated with "sexual honor." In addition, the rhetorical term "color" can connote shame. Comments on BD, TC, LGW, PF, CYT, ClT, PhyT, and FranT.

Contributor
Perfetti, Lisa, ed.

Alternative Title
The Representation of Women's Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Parliament of Fowls.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Legend of Good Women
Clerk and His Tale.
Physician and His Tale.
Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.