Risking Desire: Chaucerian Representations of Erotic Love and the Pagan Past

Author / Editor
Cook, Alexandra Kollontai.

Title
Risking Desire: Chaucerian Representations of Erotic Love and the Pagan Past

Published
DAI A67.10 (2007): n.p.

Description
Like many of his predecessors, Chaucer explores risks in dealing with pagan sources, but he renders such risks pleasurable as a means to "destabilize Christian constructs of safety."

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.