Hymeneal Alogic: Debating Political Community in The Parliament of Fowls
- Author / Editor
- Davis, Kathleen.
Hymeneal Alogic: Debating Political Community in The Parliament of Fowls
- Published
- Kathy Lavezzo, ed. Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), pp. 161-90.
- Description
- Parallels between the sex/gender system and establishing medieval English identity indicate that the perceived doubleness of woman echoes that of the nation. PF does not fantasize about a unified nation, but it does produce "England" as a site of social contestation.
- Alternative Title
- Imagining a Medieval English Nation
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.