Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form
- Author / Editor
- Heyworth, Gregory.
Desiring Bodies: Ovidian Romance and the Cult of Form
- Published
- South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 357 pp.
- Description
- Six studies on literature ranging from Marie de France to Milton. In the chapter on Chaucer, Heyworth examines medieval cultural values and suggests that Chaucer complicates those values, particularly marriage. KnT and FranT depict the social institution of marriage as a hybrid between genuine love and a desire for power over one's spouse.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale