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Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography compiled by Stefan Blaschke |
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Start: Topical Index: Representations: Literary Texts: 14th Century:
Representations: Literary Texts: »John Gower (/ˈɡaʊ.ər/; c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer. He is remembered primarily for three major works—the Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis—three long poems written in French, Latin, and English respectively, which are united by common moral and political themes.« (Extract from: Wikipedia) Confessio Amantis »Confessio Amantis ("The Lover's Confession") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative poems. According to its prologue, it was composed at the request of Richard II. It stands with the works of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl poet as one of the great works of late 14th-century English literature.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)
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Medieval History:
14th Century
I. Author Index [Info] Deutsch, David. Sex, violence, and the law in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. M.A. Thesis, University of Georgia at Athens, 2006 [Info] Dinshaw, Carolyn. »Quarrels, rivals, and rape. Gower and Chaucer.« "A wyf ther was". Essays in honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck. Edited by Juliette Dor. Liège 1992: 112-122. [Info] Dinshaw, Carolyn. »Rivalry, rape, and manhood. Gower and Chaucer.« Violence against women in medieval texts. Edited by Anna Roberts. Gainesville 1998: 137-160. [Info] Hillman, Richard. »Gower’s Lucrece. A new source for the Rape of Lucrece.« Chaucer review 24 (1990): 263-270. [Info] Mast, Isabelle. »Rape in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis and other related works.« Young medieval women. Edited by Katherine J. Lewis et al. New York 1999: 103-132. [Info] Saunders, Corinne. »Classical paradigms of rape in the Middle Ages.« Rape in antiquity. Sexual violence in the Greek and Roman worlds. Edited by Susan Deacy et al. London 1997: 243-266. [Info] Sylvester, Louise. »Reading narratives of rape. The story of Lucretia in Chaucer, Gower and Christine de Pizan.« Leeds studies in English No. 31 (2000): 115-144. [Info] Torres, Sara V., et al. »Female Consent and Affective Resistance in Romance: Medieval Pedagogy and #MeToo.« New Chaucer Studies 2 (2021): 34-49. [Info] Watt, Caitlin G. »The speaking wound: Gower’s Confessio Amantis and the ethics of listening in the #metoo era.« postmedieval 11 (2020): 272-281. [Info] Watt, Caitlin G. »‘Thy Womb Will Avenge Thee’: Olympias, Revenge, and Consent in Medieval Alexander the Great Narratives.« Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature. Edited by Jane Bonsall et al. Turnhout 2025: 271-287. II. Speaker Index [Info] Barrett, Robert W, Jr. »Rape and Sexual Economies in John Gower's Confessio Amantis.« 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 1998. [Info] Coxon, Caitlin. »Eliding Philomela in John Gower's Confessio Amantis.« 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Virtual 2021. [Info] Garrison, Jennifer. »Teaching Rape in Chaucer and Gower.« 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2017. [Info] Rajendran, Shyama. »Teaching the Legend of Philomela from Ovid to Gower.« 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo 2017. |