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Record Number:
9508
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Watt , Diane.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Consuming Passions in Book VIII of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" [The author argues that the various "appetites" condemned by Gower (incest, latent homosexuality, and female desire) are part of a mirror for princes guide to proper manly behavior that emphasizes the control of sexuality. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source:
Consuming Narrative: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters. University of Wales Press, 2002. Pages 28 - 41.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Advice for Princes, Literary Genre
Gender in Literature
Gower, John, Poet- Confessio Amantis- Apollonius of Tyre Episode
Handbooks
Incest in Literature
Literature- Verse
Psychoanalytic Theory
Sexuality in Literature
Women in Literature
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
14
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
One Figure. Figure One Manuscript illumination of Antiochus and his daughter with Apollonius, "Confessio amantis" (New York, Pierpont Morgan MS M126, fol.187v).
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
2002.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
Not Available