Katie Barclay. Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self. Emotions in History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 240. $85.00 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2022.203
Abstract: language. She brings in the relicta trope: Chaucer’s abandoned women try both to say and have what they want, but they fail, and their imperfect expressions give rise to misunderstandings. She alleges that Chaucer’s narrator… read more here.
Keywords: language; allen goss; chaucer; oxford ... See more keywords
Auctour and Auctoritee in Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess
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DOI: 10.1080/00393274.2018.1465848
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article reconsiders the strategy - often seen by scholars as obtuse or subservient - of the Poet-Dreamer in Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess, and shows how a playful yet masterful irony which… read more here.
Keywords: auctour auctoritee; book duchess; chaucer book; chaucer ... See more keywords
Medieval Literature and Social Politics: Studies of Cultures and Their Contexts by Stephen Knight (review)
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DOI: 10.1353/art.2022.0006
Abstract: not constituted in relation to masculine fantasies or demands. Rather than nightmares of women’s affective and embodied fluidity, this romance instead charts the ways that an impenetrable feminine body produces desires that cannot be contained… read more here.
Keywords: desire; allen goss; medieval literature; chaucer ... See more keywords