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- W1151715793 abstract "This dissertation examines the narrative landscapesof Middle English Ricardian political poetry in light of the splitbetween creation and reception of these literary environments.Environmental descriptions are significant and nuanced politicalstatements in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, andWilliam Langland. These authors do not use environment asbackground or mere scenery because perception of environment ishighly political, based upon temporal and cultural distinctions.This dissertation argues that medieval authors seek to focusaudience attention upon the figure of the sovereign via textualdepictions of the realm. Covert political criticism is activatedthrough the latent cultural power of forests, rivers, andagricultural spaces like fields and gardens. In contrast to thesebounded and regulated places, the wilderness serves as an a prioristate of political disorder that demonstrates, through its ownfluidity and uncontrollable nature, the inherent stability ofplace. The first chapter of the project argues that the forests ofChaucer’s Prologue and Tale of the Manciple create coherence bycuing audiences to read the story as a political critique ofunruly sovereigns. The second chapter argues that Gower’s use ofthe River Thames in the Ricardian Prologue of the ConfessioAmantis infuses the work with uniquely English political qualitiesthat the Lancastrian recensions of the poem lack. The thirdchapter examines the rarely-studied agrarian dream vista in Mumand the Sothsegger, arguing that the fields which open the visiondeliberately problematize a reading of the vision’s bee fable as anuncritical allegory of good kingship. The fourth chapter discussesthe wilderness of Piers Plowman, arguing that the poem utilizeswilderness as a complex space of political disorder which isdeliberately set outside sovereign control. This space is createdto be destroyed by civilization. The inability of the wildernessto be defined and controlled as a place generates the narrativemotion which the dream vision requires to move Will along his pathof discovery. The civilized places of forest, river, and fielddraw power from the wilderness, establishing the wilderness as aspace perpetually beyond sovereign control and thus deeplydesirable yet always frightening." @default.
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- W1151715793 title "Politicizing the Landscape: Ricardian Literary Languages of Power." @default.
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