Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780198187301 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 288 str.

Hugh White

Opis

This book examines the moral status of the natural in writings by Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and others, showing how--particularly in the erotic sphere--the influences of nature are not always conceived as wholly benign.

Recenzje

User-friendly in more ways than one: it thoughtfully provides the dates of the writers it cites, as well as generous quotations from the primary sources, and indications of the secondary sources, which appear both in the footnotes and in the References section.