The legend of good women : context and reception

Author(s)

• Collette, Carolyn P.

Bibliographic Information

The legend of good women : context and reception

edited by Carolyn P. Collette

（Chaucer studies, 36）

D.S. Brewer, 2006

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Essays re-examining the Legend of Good Women, placing it in its cultural and historical context. The essays in this volume explore the context and reception of Chaucer's neglected The Legend of Good Women from a variety of late medieval cultural perspectives, verbal, political, and social, expanding our understanding of the web of poetic and cultural conventions in which the Legend was created and received. Topics addressed include the manuscript and print history of the poem (explored through performance theory, and in the context of erotic courtly games played by the aristocracy); the politics of Philippa of Lancaster's role in transmitting the flower and leaf topos from French literature into English; the connections between love and polity in the Prologue; the influence of stories of Amazons, Thebes, and Troy; and the ludic dimensions of the Legend. CAROLYN P. COLLETTE is Professor of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Contributors: WILLIAM A. QUINN, JOYCE COLEMAN, ROBERT R. EDWARDS, NANCY BRADLEY WARREN, BETSY MCCORMICK, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, JAMIE C. FUMO, NICOLA F. MCDONALD

Table of Contents

• Introduction - Carolyn P Collette The Legend of Good Women: Performance, Performativity and Presentation - William A. Quinn The Flower, the Leaf, and Philippa of Lancaster - Joyce Coleman Ricardian Dreamwork: Chaucer, Cupid, and Loyal Lovers - Robert R. Edwards `Olde Stories' and Amazons: The Legend of Good Women, the `Knight's Tale', and Fourteenth-Century Political Culture - Nancy Bradley Warren Remembering the Game
• Debating the Legend's Women - Betsy McCormick Intention, Integrity and `Renoun': The Public Virtue of Chaucer's Good Women - Simon Meecham-Jones The God of Love and the Love of God: Palinodic Exchange in the Prologue of the Legend of Good Women and the `Retraction' - Jamie C. Fumo Games Medieval Women Play - Nicola F McDonald

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Details

• NCID: BA76432651
• ISBN:
  • 9781843840718
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: engfre
• Place of Publication: Woodbridge
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 203 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Legend of good women
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
  • LCSH : Mythology, Classical, in literature
  • LCSH : Women in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00208049