"Pite renneth soone in gentil herte": Ugly Feelings and Gendered Conduct in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."
- Author / Editor
- Burger, Glenn.
"Pite renneth soone in gentil herte": Ugly Feelings and Gendered Conduct in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 52.1 (2017): 66-84.
- Description
- Connects LGW with the "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry" and the "Menagier de Paris." Suggests that the domestic sphere of "Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry" and the "Menagier de Paris" offers a place for productive, satisfying love; however, love that is illegible and destructive is revealed in LGW.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations