The Representation of Gender in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women" and Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Its Relation to Cultural Anxieties in England at the End of the Fourteenth Century.
- Author / Editor
- Canty, R.
The Representation of Gender in Chaucer's "Legend of Good Women" and Gower's "Confessio Amantis" and Its Relation to Cultural Anxieties in England at the End of the Fourteenth Century.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Exeter, 1997. Dissertation Abstracts International C70.20. Abstract accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; accessed August 24, 2025.
- Description
- Item not seen. From the abstract: Examines "the treatment of five of the tales about classical women that appear" in LGW and in Gower's "Confessio Amantis." Considers gender, the "socio-political environment of the time," and poetics in the prologues of the two works and in the tales of Philomela, Ariadne, Dido, Medea, and Lucrece.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations