Animal Speech and Political Utterance: Articulating the Controversies of Fourteenth-Century England in Non-Human Voices

Author / Editor
Fulton, Sharon.

Title
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