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The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance (Hardcover, New)
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The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
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A study of romance and the Orient in Chaucer and in anonymous
popular metrical romances. The idea of the Orient is a major motif
in Chaucer and medieval romance, and this new study reveals much
about its use and significance, setting the literature in its
historical context and thereby offering fresh new readings of
anumber of texts. The author begins by looking at Chaucer's and
Gower's treatment of the legend of Constance, as told by the Man of
Law, demonstrating that Chaucer's addition of a pattern of
mercantile details highlights the commercial context of the eastern
Mediterranean in which the heroine is placed; she goes on to show
how Chaucer's portraits of Cleopatra and Dido from the Legend of
Good Women, read against parallel texts, especially in Boccaccio,
reveal them to be loci of medieval orientalism. She then examines
Chaucer's inventive handling of details taken from Eastern sources
and analogues in the Squire's Tale, showing how he shapes them into
the western form ofinterlace. The author concludes by looking at
two romances, Floris and Blauncheflur and Le Bone Florence of Rome;
she argues that elements in Floris of sibling incest are
legitimised into a quest for the beloved, and demonstrates that Le
Bone Florence be related to analogous oriental tales about heroic
women who remain steadfast in virtue against persecution and
adversity. Professor CAROL F. HEFFERNAN teaches in the Department
ofEnglish, Rutgers University.
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