The Physician and the Forester: Virginia, Venison, and the Biopolitics of Vital Property.
- Author / Editor
- Schiff, Randy P.
The Physician and the Forester: Virginia, Venison, and the Biopolitics of Vital Property.
- Published
- Randy P. Schiff and Joseph Taylor, eds. The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 82-103.
- Description
- Argues that the narrator's comments on poachers and governesses in PhyT are not digressive, but part of a broader "biopolitical" concern that "clearly condemns the parental absolutism that leads to Virginius's murder of his daughter" and aptly cultivates "a politics of life" as an alternative to the traditional "thanatopolitical status quo" of legalistic authority.
- Contributor
- Schiff, Randy P., ed.
Taylor, Joseph, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life, and Law in Medieval Britain
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale