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  134. 66 JENNA MEAD
  135. Notes on Contributor
  136. Jenna Mead teaches in the English program in the University of Tasmania and has
  137. particular interests in late fourteenth-century English medieval writing and the
  138. ongoing discourses of medievalism that pervade post-medieval periods, including
  139. contemporary popular film, electronic and writing cultures. She also teaches in
  140. the area of literary theory. She is a member of the Australian and New Zealand
  141. Association for Medieval and Early Modern Research, the New Chaucer Society
  142. and the Medieval Academy of America. Her publications include studies of both
  143. late medieval culture and modern gender and political issues.
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  163. after Chaucer's earlier periods of military service (1359-60, 1369, 1370) and
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  282.     <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy</h1>
  283.     <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Mead, Jenna</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>Chaucer and the Subject of Bureaucracy.</xhtml:em> Exemplaria, 19 (1). pp. 39-66. ISSN 1041-2573 (print) 1753-3074 (online)</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1950/1/EXM_Mead.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1950/1/EXM_Mead.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />256Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175330707X203200">http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175330707X203200</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">This paper takes its lead from Sheila Delany's important and influential
  284. "Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text" (1996). Delany's
  285. argument offers a number of theoretical and interpretive interventions
  286. in liberal humanist readings of a particular Chaucerian text, the canonical
  287. poetic fi gure of Chaucer and Chaucer as biographical subject. In The Life of
  288. Geoffrey Chaucer, Derek Pearsall considers Chaucer's acceptance of the post
  289. of Comptroller of the Wool Custom and the Wool Subsidy in June 1374 and
  290. comments that Chaucer's "career shifted decisively away from the immediate
  291. environs of the royal court": the Comptroller "job itself was something of
  292. a chore and not a usual avenue to promotion for an ambitious squire."My
  293. argument is that this fourteen-year career as a bureaucrat, coming as it does
  294. after Chaucer's earlier periods of military service (1359-60, 1369, 1370) and
  295. the years 1366-1378 during which Chaucer undertakes perhaps fi ve diplomatic
  296. and trade missions, raises a question about the subjectivity we construct for
  297. Chaucer out of the conjunction of public writing and personal history: what
  298. might it mean to read a 'bureaucratic Chaucer'?
  299. </p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">This article first appeared in 2006 @ &lt;http://www.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/SD/Mead.htm&gt;. It was republished in the format deposited on e-Print. Bibliographic details cite the current format.</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">KEYWORDS: Chaucer, bureaucracy, biography, subjectivity, offi cial records </td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/420200.html">420000 Language and Culture &gt; 420200 Literature Studies</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">1950</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Dr Jenna Mead</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">17 Sep 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=1950;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&amp;eprintid=1950">item control page</a></p>
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