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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820657603321

Autore

Sadlek Gregory M. <1950->

Titolo

Idleness working : the discourse of love's labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower / / Gregory M. Sadlek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8132-1652-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages)

Disciplina

809/.933543

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

Literature, Medieval - Roman influences

Love in literature

Work in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-281) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The discourse of love's labor and its cultural contexts -- Labor omnia vincit: Roman attitudes toward work and leisure and the discourse of love's labor in Ovid's Ars amatoria -- Noble servitium: aspects of labor ideology in the Christian middle ages and love's labor in the De amore of Andreas Capellanus -- Homo artifex: monastic labor ideologies, urban labor, and love's labor in Alan of Lille's De planctu naturae -- Repose travaillant: the discourse of love's labor in the Roman de la rose -- The vice of Acedia and the gentil occupacion in Gower's Confessio amantis -- Love's bysynesse in Chaucer's amatory fiction.