Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy

Author / Editor
Mead, Jenna.

Title
Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy

Published
Exemplaria 19 (2007): 39-66.

Description
Scholars such as Sheila Delany, Derek Pearsall, and Thomas Frederick Tout have used bureaucratic records of Chaucer - and records of Chaucer as bureaucrat - to construct subjective portraits of the poet. Mead explores the processes of "reading" bureaucracy that produce partial, provisional, and subjective visions of a historical Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life.