Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis

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Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis

Name: Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
ISBN: 9780415969765

Ellen Shaw Bakalian

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Throughout the tales in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society. This book explores how Gower uses the aspects of love in the Confessio-the notions of kinde, or passionate love, and reason in the sphere of love; "honeste love" in the Marriage Tales of the Four Wives; passionate and excessive love in the Forsaken Women's tales; and Amans's lovesickness. In her thorough examination of Gower's work, Ellen S. Bakalian shows how Gower emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason must rule man in all things, including his natural instincts to love.
ISBN : 9780415969765

Content Type:

Books

Year:

2004

Publisher:

Routledge

Language:

english

ISBN 10:

041596976X

ISBN 13:

9780415969765