Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis

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Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis is written by Ellen S. Bakalian and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1135879915 (ISBN 10) and 9781135879914 (ISBN 13).

Throughout the tales in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower proposes that reciprocal love is the remedy to what ails man and society. This book explores how Gower uses the aspects of love in the Confessio-the notions of kinde, or passionate love, and reason in the sphere of love; honeste love in the Marriage Tales of the Four Wives; passionate and excessive love in the Forsaken Women's tales; and Amans's lovesickness. In her thorough examination of Gower's work, Ellen S. Bakalian shows how Gower emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason must rule man in all things, including his natural instincts to love.