Dialogues of Love and Government: A Study of the Erotic Dialogue Form in Some Texts from the Courtly Love Tradition
- Author / Editor
- Spencer, Alice.
Dialogues of Love and Government: A Study of the Erotic Dialogue Form in Some Texts from the Courtly Love Tradition
- Published
- Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
- Physical Description
- x, 234 pp. 3 b&w illus.
- Description
- Studies the "Boethian dialogue model in literature concerned with courtly love," treating the literature as examples of dialogue rather than dream vision and examining the relationship between the hierarchical, upward-leading erotics of this literature and its worldly, political implications and applications. Considers the Platonic, Augustinian roots of form and theme in Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and the pervasive influence of the treatise on Dante and on French and English writers--Machaut, Froissart, Usk, Gower, the Pearl poet, and more. Discusses narcissism and the dream of Morpheus in BD and assesses autocratic power and the marguerite tradition in LGWP. Chaucer's poems explore ironies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Book of the Duchess
- Legend of Good Women