Female Desire in Chaucer's “Legend of Good Women” and Middle English Romance. Lucy M. Allen-Goss. Gender in the Middle Ages 15. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020. ix + 226 pp. $99.
Abstract:also through the interplay of both texts taken together. Anselm Havercamp's penultimate chapter turns to "Hegel's reading of Shakespeare" as perhaps the "foremost instance of what it means philologically, in terms of method, to read literature philosophically" (168), and finds that "Hegel deciphered in Shakespeare's theatre an epistemological drama of objective history, rather than of lived experience" (178).For the final chapter, Paul A. Kottman takes Hegel's commentary on bliss in Christian art, most fully r… Show more
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