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Article: Fathers and Daughters in Gower's `Confessio Amantis': Authority, Family, State, and Writing. (Reviews).
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Maria Bullon-Fernandez, Fathers and Daughters in Gomer's `Confessio Amantis': Authority, Family, State, and Writing, Publications of the John Gower Society V (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000). viii + 241 pp. ISBN 0-85991-578-6. 50.00 [pounds sterling].
The argument of this book is that the many tales about fathers and daughters in the Confessio Amantis allow Gower `to explore the boundaries of power and authority ... and to raise questions about power, subordination, and the limits of the authority figure'. There is only one example of explicit father-daughter incest, the Antiochus episode that opens the tale of Apollonius of Tyre in book viii; but Maria ...