Walter's Two Bodies: Sovereignty and Individuality in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Johnston, Andrew James.
Walter's Two Bodies: Sovereignty and Individuality in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale
- Published
- Lilo Moessner and Christa M. Schmidt, eds. Anglistentag 2004 Aachen (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2005), pp. 19-29.
- Series
- Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, no. 16.
- Description
- Highlights political aspects of ClT, interpreting the cruelty Walter inflicts on Griselda as a projection of his inner conflict between a hereditary ruler's "body politic" and his "body natural"--a conflict prompted by the pressure to provide an heir to the throne exerted by his subjects.
- Contributor
- Moessner, Lilo, ed.
- Schmidt, Christa M., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Anglistentag 2004 Aachen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale