Ego Nabugodonosor: A Study of Conventions of Madness in Middle English Literature.
- Author/Editor
- Doob, Penelope Billings Reed.
- Title
- Ego Nabugodonosor: A Study of Conventions of Madness in Middle English Literature.
- Published
- Doob, Penelope Billings Reed. "Ego Nabugodonosor: A Study of Conventions of Madness in Middle English Literature." Ph.D. Dissertation. Stanford University, 1970. Dissertation Abstracts International 31.04 (1970): 1755A. Full text accessible via ProQuest Theses & Dissertations Global.
- Review
- "This study . . . [seeks to] demonstrate the importance of an understanding of the moral connotations of madness--specifically the connection between madness and sin--for the interpretation of many medieval works; to provide an introduction to concepts of disease and madness prevalent in the Middle Ages; to define three conventions of madness [the Mad Sinner, the Unholy Wild Man, the Holy Wild Man]; and to offer new perspectives on some important works which include mad or wild men." Chapter 3 treats Nebuchadnezzar as the "prototype of literary medieval madness" and includes discussion of him in Gower's "Confessio Amantis." [eJGN 44.1]
- Date
- 1970
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis