Animal Speech and Political Utterance: Articulating the Controversies of Fourteenth-Century England in Non-Human Voices
- Author / Editor
- Fulton, Sharon.
Animal Speech and Political Utterance: Articulating the Controversies of Fourteenth-Century England in Non-Human Voices
- Published
- DAI A73.08 (2013): n.p.
- Description
- Suggests that Langland, Chaucer, and Gower represent political speech with the speech of animals, and argues that this device was later appropriated in anti-Ricardian discourse.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations