Mourning Becomes the Duchess: Chaucer, Text, Tomb.
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Elizabeth.
Mourning Becomes the Duchess: Chaucer, Text, Tomb.
- Published
- Florilegium 36 (2019): 164-80.
- Description
- Reads Chaucer's BD in the context of the material and ritual aspects of Blanche's death, using Freud's concept of the work of mourning to address the public, political, social, and economic work of John of Gaunt's mourning. A revised version of an address to the Canadian Society of Medievalists delivered in 2014.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess