Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12358598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenna Mead |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-66 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Exemplaria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-2573 • E-ISSN: 1753-3074 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/175330707x203200 |
| OpenAlex | W2034104743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper takes its lead from Sheila Delany's important and influential\n"Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text" (1996). Delany's\nargument offers a number of theoretical and interpretive interventions\nin liberal humanist readings of a particular Chaucerian text, the canonical\npoetic fi gure of Chaucer and Chaucer as biographical subject. In The Life of\nGeoffrey Chaucer, Derek Pearsall considers Chaucer's acceptance of the post\nof Comptroller of the Wool Custom and the Wool Subsidy in June 1374 and\ncomments that Chaucer's "career shifted decisively away from the immediate\nenvirons of the royal court": the Comptroller "job itself was something of\na chore and not a usual avenue to promotion for an ambitious squire."My\nargument is that this fourteen-year career as a bureaucrat, coming as it does\nafter Chaucer's earlier periods of military service (1359-60, 1369, 1370) and\nthe years 1366-1378 during which Chaucer undertakes perhaps fi ve diplomatic\nand trade missions, raises a question about the subjectivity we construct for\nChaucer out of the conjunction of public writing and personal history: what\nmight it mean to read a 'bureaucratic Chaucer
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Bureaucracy · Epistemology · Humanism · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
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Social Chaucer. Paul Strohm
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Verses on the Exchequer in the Fifteenth Century
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A thousand plateaus
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2017 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |