The Language of the Body: An Analysis of Chaucer, Dunbar and Henryson.
- Author / Editor
- Collins, Shane Maurice.
The Language of the Body: An Analysis of Chaucer, Dunbar and Henryson.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Durham University, 2012. Fully accessible via https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5902/ (accessed March 16, 2026).
- Physical Description
- [iv], 335 pp.
- Description
- Explores how "multiple modes of discourse" about the body--medical, philosophical, religious, and courtly--underlie works by Chaucer, Dunbar, and Henryson, arguing that CT, through its multiplicity of voices, "demonstrates fundamental medieval anxieties about the body’s stability," "how authoritative modes of discourse were used by different social types, and how their . . . claims to authoritative discourse were frequently unreliable." Also considers the "language of the body" in Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" and Dunbar's "Tretis of the Tua Marit Wemen and the Wedo," with attention to the influences of TC and WBPT respectively.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde
Wife of Bath and Her Tale