Chaucer and Gower.
- Author / Editor
- Bridges, Venetia.
Chaucer and Gower.
- Published
- Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt, eds. Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 342-76.
- Description
- Assesses the "depiction of women as ethical signifiers" in Chaucer's and Gower's writings, summarizing the "multilingual and transnational networks on which both poets draw," exploring the "ethical valences" of gender (especially feminine) in their major works, and comparing "the major female figures" they both portray: Dido, Medea, Constance, the "loathly lady," and Alcyone. Finds Chaucer to be "more adaptive" than Gower in his engagement with the "interpretative framework that limited women’s power to signify."
- Contributor
- Saunders, Corinne, ed.
Watt, Diane, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism