The Anxiety of Exclusion: Speech, Power, and Chaucer's Manciple
- Author / Editor
- Bertolet, Craig E.
The Anxiety of Exclusion: Speech, Power, and Chaucer's Manciple
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 (2011): 183-218.
- Description
- Reads CYP and ManPT in light of Agamben's theories of sovereignty and exclusion and de Certeau's notion of a "person in-between," considering as well several instances of slander and accusation in late-medieval London records. London, the Host, and Phebus are all sites of sovereign power (defined by the ability to except), while the Manciple's mother embodies a "critique of sovereignty" (216), part of Chaucer's concern with the "insecurity of public utterance" (191).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manciple and His Tale
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale