The Constraints of Justice and Gower’s "Lawyerly Habit of Mind."

Author / Editor
Gastle, Brian W.

Title
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