The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer

Author / Editor
Edwards, Robert R.

Title
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer

Published
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Physical Description
xi, 219 pp.

Series
The New Middle Ages

Description
Seven chapters on topics related to Ovid, Augustine, Hloïse and Abélard, Marie de France, Dante, Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer's relations with Boccaccio and Dante in TC. Grounded in Augustinian, Ovidian, and biblical models, TC (lines 5.540 ff.) explores the impossibility of desire.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.