Journal article
Unlocked doors: Geoffrey Chaucer's writing rooms and Elizabeth Chaucer's nunnery
- Abstract:
-
In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf asserts that, “a lock on the door means the power to think for oneself” as part of her powerful argument that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Literal physical separation from others is connected with mental independence. Demonstrating a similar understanding of the parallels between the self and the room, Lakoff and Johnson argue that “container” metaphors are ontological. They write that people are “bounded a...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- New Chaucer Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer Journal website
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 423434
- Publication date:
- 2018-12-22
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-02
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1949-0755
- ISSN:
-
0190-2407
Item Description
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:747037
- UUID:
-
uuid:09bdb854-3d0d-45e2-a03e-2515708fcdf8
- Local pid:
- pubs:747037
- Source identifiers:
-
747037
- Deposit date:
- 2017-11-20
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- New Chaucer Society, Saint Louis University
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © 2018 The New Chaucer Society, Saint Louis University. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from the New Chaucer Society at: https://doi.org/10.1353/sac.2018.0014]
Metrics
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record