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Venus Owne Clerk: Chaucers Debt to the Confessio Amantis (Costerus NS 167) (Costerus New Series)
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Product Description Venus Owne Clerk: Chaucers 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 Gowers Confessio Amantis, resulting in a setup which is entirely different from the one announced in the General Prologue. Lindeboom seeks to show that this results from Gowers call, at the end of his first redaction of the Confessio, for a work similar to his a testament of love. Much of the argument centres upon the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner, who are shown to follow Gowers lead by both engaging in confessing to all the Seven Deadly Sins while preaching a typically fourteenthcentury sermon at the same time. While not beyond speculation at times, the author offers his readers a welldocumented and tantalizing glimpse of Chaucer turning away from his original concept for the Canterbury Tales and realigning them along lines far closer to Gower. Contents Acknowledgement Introduction One: Chaucers Changing Design of the Canterbury Tales Two: Towards Composing a Testament of Love Three: The Sergeant and Man of Law as Gower Four: The Testament of Love Five: Confession, Sin and the Wife of Bath Six: The Pardoners Confession of Sin Seven: The Wife of Baths Sermon Eight: The Pardoner s Double Sermon Conclusion Reference Register Review The overall argument of Wim Lindebooms book is that Chaucer radically changed his development of the Canterbury Tales as a reaction to reading Gowers Confessio. Dr Lindeboom offers a comprehensive and exciting reading of the Tales in the light of the Confessio which I find thoughtprovoking and insightful. On the way to this reading he provides enlightening discussion on a series of key issues in Chaucer/Gower scholarship. The books unconventional approach is both exciting and stimulating, not afraid to court controversy or to take issue with established views. The truly impressive grasp of detail is continually linked with a broad conception of what these poets were trying to achieve. Jeremy J. Smith, University of GlasgowLindeboom has written a surprising book and a courageous. Venus Owne Clerk leaves scarcely a timehonoured assumption about the GowerChaucer literary relationship unconfronted. Few, perhaps, will agree with his every conclusion, but no one who reads this book can come away unchallenged by its fresh way of seeing. Robert F. Yeager, University of West Florida
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