Female Friendship in Late Medieval Literature: Cultural Translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory.
- Author / Editor
- Elmes, Melissa Ridley.
Female Friendship in Late Medieval Literature: Cultural Translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory.
- Published
- Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala, eds. Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2022), pp. 135-54.
- Description
- Describes depictions of affective female friendship in works by Chaucer (TC and FranT), John Gower (Albinus and Rosamund in the "Confessio Amantis"), and Thomas Malory (portions of "Le Morte Darthur"), contrasting them with source materials and attributing their relatively positive portrayals to the rise of "literate activity," including patronage, among women. Assesses the circles of friends who seek to console Criseyde and Dorigen.
- Alternative Title
- Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations