"For Rage": Rape Survival, Women's Anger, and Sisterhood in Chaucer's "Legend of Philomela."

Author / Editor
Harris, Carissa.

Title
"For Rage": Rape Survival, Women's Anger, and Sisterhood in Chaucer's "Legend of Philomela."

Published
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 253-69

Description
Maps out the way in which anger and community are depicted in different versions of Philomela's rape, displaying the power that is represented in this anger and community, before linking this history of female anger to contemporary artists, such as MissMe.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations