The Laborer's Two Bodies: Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Kellie.
The Laborer's Two Bodies: Literary and Legal Productions in Britain, 1350-1500
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Physical Description
- ix, 276 pp. : 7 b&w illus.
- Description
- Five chapters explore the "effects of labor laws" on vernacular writing in late medieval England: chronicles, anonymous dream visions, LGW, the Paston letters, and morality plays. Robertson focuses on interactions between theories of labor and textual production. Chapter 2 (pp. 51-77) is a revision of Robertson's previously published essay. "Laboring in the God of Love's Garden: Chaucer's Prologue to The Legend of Good Women" (SAC 24 [2002]: 115-47), with an additional section on the role of William Morris's commentary on characterizing distinctions between Chaucer and Langland. [Editors' note: The cover of Robertson's book lists a different subtitle: Labor and the "Work" of the Text in Medieval Britain, 1350-1500.]
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.