"Pite renneth soone in gentil herte": Ugly Feelings and Gendered Conduct in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women."

Author / Editor
Burger, Glenn.

Title
"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