Venus' owne clerk : : Chaucer's debt to the Confessio amantis / / B.W. Lindeboom.

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 Tales were signally influenced by John Gower’s Confessio Amantis , resulting in a set-up which is entir...

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Superior document:Costerus, new ser., 167
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Costerus ; new ser., v. 167.
Physical Description:1 online resource (486 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • Chaucer’s Changing Design of the Canterbury Tales
  • Towards Composing a Testament of Love
  • The Sergeant and Man of Law as Gower
  • The Testament of Love
  • Confession, Sin and the Wife of Bath
  • The Pardoner’s Confession of Sin
  • The Wife of Bath’s Sermon
  • The Pardoner’s Double Sermon
  • Conclusion
  • Reference.