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Venus' Owne Clerk

Chaucer's Debt to the Confessio Amantis

Venus' Owne Clerk( )
Author: Lindeboom, B. W.
Series title:Costerus New Ser.
ISBN:978-90-420-2150-1
Publication Date:Jan 2007
Publisher:BRILL
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $187.00
Book Description:

Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the "Confessio Amantis" will appeal to all those who value a bit of integration of Chaucer and Gower studies. It develops the unusual theme that the Canterbury Taleswere signally influenced by John Gower's Confessio Amantis, resulting in a set-up which is entirely different from the one announced in the General Prologue. Lindeboom seeks to show that this results from Gower's call, at the end of his first redaction of the...
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Book Details
Pages:476
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Medieval
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.045 x 9.165 Inches
Book Weight:2.053 Pounds



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