Drinking Sorrow and Bathing in Bliss: Liquid Emotions in Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Kaempfer, Lucie.

Title
Drinking Sorrow and Bathing in Bliss: Liquid Emotions in Chaucer.

Published
Open Library of Humanities 4.1 (2018): 1-24.

Description
Associates the liquidity of emotions in medieval literature with the Galenic theory of humours, exploring "the different uses of liquidity to represent emotions in Chaucer’s work," especially TC, where emotions such as sorrow and joy can be variously cried, drunk, bathed in, written in ink, and more. Includes comments on Bo, ClT, MLT, SNT, and WBT.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Style and Versification
Boece
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale