The Power of Water in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Book of the Duchess/"

Author / Editor
Bryant, Brantley L.

Title
The Power of Water in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Book of the Duchess/"

Published
Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 26 (2019): 1006-37.

Description
Ecocritical examination of the depiction of the sea in the Ceyx and Alcyone episode of BD, focusing on its shorelessness, comparing it with analogous accounts and with the representation of water in John of Trevisa's "On the Properties of Things," and arguing that Chaucer's poem "is an anthropocentric elegy within a disanthropocentric frame."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations