Folklore and Powerful Women in Gower's 'Tale of Florent'
- Author / Editor
- Peck, Russell A.
Folklore and Powerful Women in Gower's 'Tale of Florent'
- Published
- S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter, eds. The English "Loathly Lady" Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 100-145.
- Description
- Gower's "Tale of Florent" was composed before its English analogues, including WBT, and is here anatomized as a series of folktale motifs. Peck also explores how the narrative is "put in a new dress" and made appropriate to its new functions by Chaucer and others who follow Gower.
- Alternative Title
- English Loathly Lady Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.