Gower and Chaucer on Pain and Suffering: Jepte's Daughter in the Bible, the 'Physician's Tale' and the 'Confessio Amantis'
- Author / Editor
- Yeager, R. F.
Gower and Chaucer on Pain and Suffering: Jepte's Daughter in the Bible, the 'Physician's Tale' and the 'Confessio Amantis'
- Published
- Esther Cohen, Leona Toker, Manuela Consonni, and Otniel E. Dror, eds. Knowledge and Pain (New York: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 43-62.
- Description
- Unlike their biblical source, Chaucer's and Gower's allusions to Jephthah's daughter indicate concern with pain and emotional suffering. Also considers the illustration in Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.126 that accompanies Gower's tale of Virginia in "Confessio Amantis."
- Contributor
- Cohen, Esther, ed.
- Toker, Leona, ed.
- Consonni, Manuela, ed.
- Dror, Otniel E., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Knowledge and Pain.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations