The Body Spoken: Language, Origins, and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Margherita, Gayle Margaret.

Title
The Body Spoken: Language, Origins, and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 51 (1991): 4115A.

Description
Applies Freudian and feminist theory to three extracanonical medieval texts, presenting them as the "unconscious" of works in the literary canon. Also analyzes BD and TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde