Cummings, Brian, and James Simpson, eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Thirty-two essays by various individuals and the introduction by the editors exemplify the porous nature of the traditional boundary between medieval and Renaissance in literary history and demonstrate the interpenetration of literature and history.…
Dutton, Elisabeth, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010.
Twenty-five essays by various authors and an introduction by Dutton, with a cumulative bibliography and index. The volume was inspired by the first international congress of the John Gower Society (2008). The essays range widely in Gower…
Epstein, Robert, and Williams Robins, eds.
Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Nine essays by various authors, an introduction by the editors, a commentary on Fleming's critical legacy by Steven Justice, and a bibliography of Fleming's publications. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Sacred and Profane in…
Eyler, Joshua R., ed.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010.
Fourteen essays by various authors on topics ranging from Old English and Icelandic sagas to early modern Spanish literature and Shakespeare's "Richard III." The volume includes an introduction by the editor, an index, and a cumulative bibliography.…
Fein, Susanna, and David Raybin, eds.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Eleven essays by various authors designed for "those who want to explore how the works of Geoffrey Chaucer are now being approached." Arranged under four headings: Chaucer's Places, Chaucer's Audiences, Chaucer and Language, and Reenvisioning…
Fludernik, Monika.
Gerd Bayer and Ebbe Klitgård, eds. Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 40-59.
Compares the ways narratives deal with interiority before and after the year 1500, noting an increase in the use of metaphorical language and allegories of the characters' emotions.
Friedman, John Block.
Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2010.
Studies the iconography of nonaristocratic, nonclerical dress in late medieval literature and art. Considers aspects of dress as they distinguished peasants and gentry in the Old French pastourelle and its descendant, the bergerie, and follows this…
Surveys the figure of Apollo in classical and medieval traditions, focusing on the figure in Chaucer's works as an embodiment of the poet's understandings of poetic authority. Chaucer "mythologized a new idea of authorship in English," escaping…
Hanning, Robert W.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Considers "social and political crises that activate the comic poetry" of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto. In particular, chapter 2, "Chaucer: Dealing with the Authorities, Or, Twisting the Nose That Feeds You," addresses Chaucer's humor as it relates to…
Heinzelman, Susan Sage.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law Books, 2010.
Heinzelman examines the interdependencies of literary and legal discourses and the representations of women in them, seeking to define the development of the novel as a stage in the separation of the two discourses. She reads various French and…
Anlezark, Daniel.
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 297-317.
Explores differences between traditional "wisdom" literature and popular lore in Old and Middle English, discussing clashes between the "worlds of book learning and popular wisdom" in CT, especially in WBP and MilT.
Describes a series of six short assignments (three pages each) designed for a Chaucer class, intended to introduce students to the major methods and tools used by professional scholars. The assignments focus on diction analysis, tale/teller…
Bayer, Gerd, and Ebbe Klitgård, eds.
New York: Routledge, 2010 [2011].
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors consider various aspects of narrative technique from Chaucer to Daniel Defoe. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe under…
Bishop, Kathleen A., ed.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Thirteen essays by various authors, most of them concerned with the influence of Chaucer's work or his reception. For individual essays, search for Standing in the Shadow of the Master? under Alternative Title.
Blamires, Alcuin.
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 478-95.
Discusses representations of individuality in medieval literature, exploring concepts of "singularity" and the Chaucerian notion of "condicioun." Comments on BD, ClT, and the descriptions of the pilgrims in GP, along with a range of medieval works.
Breuer, Heidi, and Jeff Schoneman.
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 287-314.
Teachers and students need to address explicitly the relevance of literary discourses to cultural practices--an approach best cultivated in a dialogic environment.
Bryant, Brantley L.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
An eclectic collection of materials related to new-media play that focuses on Chaucer, including the following: a faux poem by "John Gower"; an introduction, by Bonnie Wheeler, to play and parody among medievalists at the conferences of the Medieval…
Burger, Glenn.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 179-98.
Burger characterizes second-wave feminism as a precursor of gay and lesbian studies, arguing that queer theory desires and explores the past in particularized rather than universalized ways, in part to "trouble Foucault's epistemic break between the…
Classen, Albrecht, and Marilyn Sandidge, eds.
New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
Nineteen essays by various authors, an introduction by the editors, and a comprehensive index. Topics range from friendship in Augustine's "Confessions" to the Whitehall conference of 1655. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
Jucker, Andreas H.
Jonathan Culpeper and Dániel Z. Kádár, eds. Historical (Im)Politeness. Linguistic Insights, no. 65 (Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 175-200.
Traces developments in the politeness system between Old English and Early Modern English, focusing on Chaucer's uses of the term "curteisie," his uses of the pronouns of address ("ye" and "thou") in MilT, and cases of "discernment" politeness in…
Lancashire, Ian.
Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Explores literary composition as "cybertextuality," employing a fusion of cognitive theory, stylistic analysis, computer applications, and attribution studies. The goal is to uncover the compositional processes of writers by examining their verbal…
Murtaugh, Daniel M.
Chaucer Review 44 (2010): 461-70.
When used in direct discourse, "as" often functions as a "discourse particle" in a manner similar to "the multivalent 'like' that seasons the more youthful dialects of Modern English." Such words allow interlocutors to convey meanings while not…
Nykiel, Joanna.
Journal of English Linguistics 38 (2010): 143-66.
Studies the occurrence of "extra" (doubled or mismatched) prepositions in Middle English relative and interrogative clauses and the persistence of the phenomenon in modern English. "Noncategorical" (gradient) constraints such as "preposition…
Ohno, Hideshi.
Osamu Imahayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Michiko Ogura, eds. Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima (New York; Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 115-29.
Tabulates features of impersonal usage in Chaucer, Gower, and Langland, using a variety of verbs and commenting on the conditions of usage.
