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.

Title
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