Contagion, Sexual Violence, and Communal Healing in Chaucer's "The Physician's Tale" and Gower's "Confessio Amantis."
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, Sarah.
Contagion, Sexual Violence, and Communal Healing in Chaucer's "The Physician's Tale" and Gower's "Confessio Amantis."
- Published
- Essays in Medieval Studies 37 (2022): 65-79.
- Description
- Focuses on two texts that feature violence against women to examine how the violated woman functions as a tool for political change. Both Chaucer and Gower foreground the suffering that men experience in response to the violated female body, leading to communal healing and the reformation of social and political structures.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Studies