Something from Nothing: Melancholy, Gossip, and Chaucer's Poetics of Idling in the 'Book of the Duches'

Author / Editor
Lears, Adin Esther.

Title
Something from Nothing: Melancholy, Gossip, and Chaucer's Poetics of Idling in the 'Book of the Duches'

Published
Chaucer Review 48.2 (2013): 205-21.

Description
Focuses on themes of gender, sexuality, and melancholy, through analysis of "productive potential" of idleness in BD.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess