Gossip and (Un)official Writing
- Author / Editor
- Phillips, Susan E.
Gossip and (Un)official Writing
- Published
- Paul Strohm, ed. Middle English (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 476-90.
- Description
- Gossip transgresses the servant-master relationship in CYP, and CYT indicates that gossip underpins the discourse of official culture as well. Gossip is also fundamental to the exemplarity of Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne.
- Alternative Title
- Middle English (Strohm)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.