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Article: Peter Nicholson, Love and Ethics in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2007
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Peter Nicholson, Love and Ethics in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), viii + 441 pp. ISBN 0-472-11512-X. 46.00 [pounds sterling]/$80.00.
Peter Nicholson's Love and Ethics in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis', weighing in at close to 450 pages, mightily qualifies as what would once have been deemed 'a hefty tome'. Especially given the reluctance these days of publishers to commit to books of such size, it says much about the risen status of Gower studies internationally that the University of Michigan Press backed this capacious project, composed in a style of 'forty years ago', as Nicholson himself has it in his preface (p. ...