Langdon, Alison, ed.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Questions the assumed "medieval distinction between humans and other animals" and explores language used by humans and nonhumans in the Middle Ages. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Animal Languages in the Middle Ages under…
Knapp, James F., and Peggy A. Knapp.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
Analyzes the aesthetics of medieval romance in light of the philosophies of G. W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and Hans-Georg Gadamer, exploring and explaining the "pleasurable seriousness" (for modern and medieval audiences) of the "Lais" of Marie de…
Kern-Stähler, Annette.
In Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann, and Ansgar Nünning, eds. A History of British Poetry: Genre--Developments--Interpretations (Trier: WVT, 2015), pp. 29–40.
Introduces Chaucer as a poet and explores reasons for his canonical status, describing his use of English, his lexicon, and his verse forms. Focuses on CT as "arguably one of the most innovative narrative poems in English," commenting on the opening…
Jacobs, Nicolas.
In Nicolas Jacobs and Gerald Morgan, eds. "Truth is the beste": A Festschrift in Honour of A. V. C. Schmidt (New York: Lang, 2014), pp. 109-25.
Reads NPT in light of the Nebuchadnezzer account in MkT--the only one of the Monk's tragedies with a "happy ending," the result of a lesson learned. Contrasts MkT as an early work of Chaucer's with NPT as one of his maturity, focusing on the "rival…
Morgan, Gerald.
In Nicolas Jacobs and Gerald Morgan, eds. "Truth is the beste": A Festschrift in Honour of A. V. C. Schmidt (New York: Lang, 2014), pp. 137-68.
Reviews the "extreme implausibility" of attributing the art of individual tales in CT to the pilgrim-narrators, and argues that the "ideas and arguments" of the tales belong to Chaucer. Also reviews the sequential order of the tales as found in the…
Jacobs, Nicolas, and Gerald Morgan, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2014
Includes twelve essays by various authors on Middle English literature, and an introductory appreciation of A. V. C. (Carl) Schmidt, a list of his publications, and an index. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Truth is the Beste under…
Goldie, Matthew Boyd.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 379-87.
Theorizes how "fundamental ways of apprehending space in the past can differ from our own," focusing on local, everyday spaces, their boundaries, and their contents, and exemplifying medieval notions with details and descriptions from Chaucer's…
Addresses the history of medieval Christianity from the fall of Rome to the ideas of the Reformation. Focuses less on secular and ecclesiastical religious elites and more on how the general public viewed issues of damnation and salvation in the…
Edwards, Robert R.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017.
Investigates the rhetorical and creative potentials of the idea of authorship as it developed in medieval English literature and established the basis of authorial "prestige and power" for future literary tradition. Individual chapters assess works…
Chism, Christine.
In Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds. A Companion to British Literature. Vol. I, Medieval Literature 700–1450 (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 130-45.
Surveys the meanings, origins, and theories of courtly love, asking how it "works" in medieval texts, what light it can "cast upon medieval cultural practices, and why it comes to matter." Includes discussion of secrecy in TC, a text that animates…
Turner, Marion.
In Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds. A Companion to British Literature. Vol. I, Medieval Literature 700–1450 (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 146-60.
Argues that Chaucer's works are "far more ambivalent and less polemical about revolt" than earlier texts or contemporary ones. Identifies changes in historical understanding of "revolution" as a concept, and examines MkT, where revolt is part of an…
Ganim, John C.
In Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds. A Companion to British Literature. Vol. I, Medieval Literature 700–1450 (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 202-14.
Explores how aspects of Chaucer's works reflect Britishness, Englishness, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism--a "potentially conflicted and unresolved matrix of possibilities" (p. 213). Identifies links and resonances between Chaucer's narratives…
DeMaria, Robert, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds.
Chichester: Wiley, 2014.
lxix, 458 pp.
Includes twenty-six essays by individual authors that survey a range of issues in understanding the concept of "British literature" in the medieval period, considering history, politics, modes of production, literary forms, reception, religion,…
Dearnley, Elizabeth.
Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2016.
Explores "the practice of translation from French into English in medieval England, and how the translators themselves viewed their task," including discussion of LGWP as Chaucer's "self-aware, playful" analysis of the factors complicating…
Cushing, Ian.
Language and Literature 27.4 (2018): 271-85
Argues that training in stylistics has benefits for teachers, putting forward a pattern for what a training course might look like. Chaucer is invoked as a subject of study by a student respondent.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
An extended essay in "thinking beyond anthropocentrality" by appreciating "lithic" ontology and "geophilia" ("geology without dispassion"), an example of posthumanist, object-oriented consideration that seeks to dislodge assumptions about…
Weston, Lisa M. C.
In Albrecht Classen, ed. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 507-22.
Suggests that magic--specifically "image magic"--and poetics were interconnected for Chaucer and his original audience. Focuses on FranT, rhetoric, ekphrasis, and other "conjunctions of magic and rhetoric" in Chaucer's writings to reflect "the…
Pigg, Daniel F.
In Albrecht Classen, ed. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 489-506.
Comments on the "shadowy slippage" between science and magic in FranT and the deceptive practices evident in CYPT suggesting that "Chaucer explored magic and science" in order to distinguish between "phenomena that can be controlled" and those that…
Classen, Albrecht, ed.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017.
Twenty-five essays by various authors on a wide array of topics. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Magic and Magicians in the Middle and the Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.
Cherewatuk, Karen, and Carson Koepke.
Chaucer Review 53.4 (2018): 449-84.
Explores the cultural ties between the Anglican Church on the American frontier and the Church of England through Elizabeth Whipple's Chaucer portrait.
Bryson, Michael, and Arpi Movsesian.
[Cambridge]: Open Books, 2017.
Surveys depictions of love, from the Bible to English Renaissance literature, exploring poetic representations of love and the effects of efforts to sublimate or suppress it. The section on Chaucer (pp. 280-94), labeled "Post-Fin'amor English…
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2016
New York: Routledge, 2017.
A critical biography of Haweis that emphasizes her work as a Chaucer scholar, critic, editor, and illustrator, explaining her accomplishments in relation to the better-known Chaucerians of the nineteenth century and exploring why her influence is not…
Explores "varieties of the medieval unspeakable," from ineffability and mysticism to same-sex eroticism, in Old and Middle English literary tradition, employing an analytical method adapted from Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Giorgio Agamben,…
Barron, Caroline.
In Linda Clark and Elizabeth Danbury, eds. "A Verray Parfit Praktisour": Essays Presented to Carole Rawcliffe (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017), pp. 141-51.
Questions why there was "no great belfry housing a public clock in medieval London," arguing that something similar was raised in the 1350s at the parish church of St. Pancras in Soper Lane. Includes one reference to Chaucer: the cock crow rather…
Analyzes parallel sections of text from William Caxton's two editions of CT set by the same compositor--Mel and ParsT, NPT and ManT--comparing practices in prose tales and verse tales, and also comparing the practices of the compositor of Richard…
