The Constraints of Justice and Gower’s "Lawyerly Habit of Mind."
- Author / Editor
- Gastle, Brian W.
The Constraints of Justice and Gower’s "Lawyerly Habit of Mind."
- Published
- Susannah Mary Chewning, ed. Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020], pp. 203-16.
- Description
- Examines John Gower's consideration of the "appropriate purpose and use of incarceration, including comparison of his Tale of Tereus” in the "Confessio Amantis" with Chaucer's analogous account in LGW. In Gower, imprisonment precedes the rape of Philomena and continues afterward, a "custodial function of removing her from the social world"; in Chaucer, imprisonment "suggests a continuation of the violation."
- Alternative Title
- Studies in the Age of Gower
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations