Beyond Rome: Mapping Gender and Justice in The Man of Law's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Lavezzo, Kathy.
Beyond Rome: Mapping Gender and Justice in The Man of Law's Tale
- Published
- SAC 24: 149-80, 2002.
- Description
- A nationalistic fantasy of legal sovereignty underlies MLT and its depiction of England in relation to Rome through the figure of Constance. Anxiously embracing the geographic and forensic marginality of England, "Chaucer's lawyer exhibits a version of the ideological vacillation and uncertainty that Homi Bhabha and other contemporary theorists associate with nationalism."
- Revised version in Lavezzo's Angels on the Edge of the World (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), pp. 93-113.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.