Christian Affirmation in 'The Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Delasanta, Rodney.

Title
Christian Affirmation in 'The Book of the Duchess'

Published
PMLA 84 (1969): 245-51.

Description
Rejects exegetical readings of BD that construe the poem as a wholesale Christian allegory, but argues that Christian consolation is nevertheless conveyed through resurrection imagery (birds, horns, harts, etc.) and details of "sleeping, dreaming, and awaking" in the Ceyx and Alcyone episode as well as the major plot.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations