Upward Bound: The Sociopolitical Significance of the King-in-Disguise Motif

Author / Editor
Walsh, Elizabeth.

Title
Upward Bound: The Sociopolitical Significance of the King-in-Disguise Motif

Published
Studies in Scottish Literature 26 (1991): 156-63.

Description
Applying the work of Bakhtin and Jameson to MilT and other texts, Walsh points out that many medieval texts concerning peasants represent the evolving socioeconomic threat to established society.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale.