Discovering Woe: The Translation of Affect in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess" and Spenser's "Daphnaïda."

Author / Editor
Wells, Marion.

Title
Discovering Woe: The Translation of Affect in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess" and Spenser's "Daphnaïda."

Published
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 71-93.

Description
Drawing on affect theory and psychoanalytic methodologies, considers the relationship between the "awake body" and "emotional utterance" in BD, relating this to notions of "translatio." Highlights the centrality of the Ceyx and Alcyone episode to this topic, exploring its interplay with Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and Spenser's "Daphnaïda."

Alternative Title
Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Inf;uence and Later Allusion