Desire and Defacement in "The Testament of Cresseid."

Author / Editor
Orlemanski, Julie.

Title
Desire and Defacement in "The Testament of Cresseid."

Published
Katie L. Walter, ed. Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 161-81.

Description
Focuses on Cresseid's leprosy in Henryson's "Testament," with attention to how the disease can help to chart the "ethical relationship" between his poem and Chaucer's TC.

Contributor
Walter, Katie L., ed.

Alternative Title
Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion