The Sovereignty and Bare Life in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Jae-cheol, Kim.
The Sovereignty and Bare Life in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale."
- Published
- Medieval and early Modern English Studies 23.2 (2015): 25-47.
- Description
- Investigates the logic of "sovereignty" in PhyT, and how sovereignty is transferred from God, to nature, then to Virginia, and back to the people who "subvert the
entire political order" toward the end of the tale. Sovereignty is directly associated with extreme violence in PhyT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale