'How love and I togedre met': Gower, Amans and the Lessons of Venus in the 'Confessio Amantis'

Author / Editor
Rayner, Samantha J.

Title
'How love and I togedre met': Gower, Amans and the Lessons of Venus in the 'Confessio Amantis'

Published
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 69-83.

Description
Focuses primarily on John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," but does compare Gower's use of spiritual love with Chaucer's subversive lust.

Alternative Title
Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations