Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman
- Author / Editor
- Bodden, M. C.
Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 276 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages.
- Description
- Historical analysis of early women's speech; describes early modern England's regulations of women's speech and women's subversive strategies to represent themselves as subjects in masculine discourses (including court depositions). Examines speech and silence in ClT; argues that Harry Bailly addresses the Clerk in the same ways women are addressed, and the Clerk code-switches in order to question how linguistic ideologies enforce gender norms. ClT challenges the association of women's silence with femininity and sexuality.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies