 | Amoral Gower: Language, Sex, and Politics Subjects: Gower John 1325?–1408. Confessio amantis; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500; Gower John 1325?–1408 -- Political and social views; Gower John 1325?–1408 -- Language; Gower John 1325?–1408 -- Ethics; Ethics Medieval in; Drawing on a combination of queer and feminist theory, ethical criticism, and psychoanalytic, historicist, and textual criticism, Diane Watt focuses on the language, sex, and politics in GowerOCOs writing. She demonstrates that Gower engaged in the sort of critical thinking more commonly associated with Chaucer and William Langland and contributes to modern debates about the ethics of criticism." |
