McMullan, Gordon, and David Matthews, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Twelve essays by individual authors, with an introduction by the editors that discusses modern England's ambivalent fascination with the Middle Ages, including, briefly, Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen" - an adaptation of Chaucer's KnT.…
Knutson, Karla.
Bruce E. Brandt and Michael S. Nagy, eds. Proceedings of the 14th Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature, April 7-8, 2006 (Brookings, S.Dak.: English Department, South Dakota State University, 2006), pp. 95-106.
Knutson argues that fifteenth-century imitators of Chaucer identified themselves as descendants of Chaucer, whom they constructed as father, to promote a conservative agenda, simultaneously antifeminist, hierarchical, and heteronormative.
Kim, Uirak.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 15 (2007): 289-305.
Kim gauges T. S. Eliot's debt to CT in "The Waste Land," examining Eliot's poem as a pilgrimage that modifies a number of Chaucer's techniques and devices: the opening reverdie, multiple voices and tales, use of sources, focus on marriage, and more.
Freer, Scott.
Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 27 (2007): 357-70.
Freer examines modernist uses of the past in Eliot's "The Waste Land" and the English movie "A Canterbury Tale," directed by Michael Powell. Explores several allusions to Chaucer.
In the fifteenth century, Chaucer was admired chiefly as the founder of English eloquence, betraying English anxiety about French influences. The patronage networks that promoted Chaucer as a literary icon also promoted translations of the works of…
Barrington, Candace.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Barrington studies examples of "Chaucer's appearances in American popular culture over the past two hundred years": Percy MacKaye's play, pageant, and opera; James Norman Hall's WWI memoir "Flying with Chaucer" (1930), Anne Maurey's pageant "May Day…
Arnell, Carla.
Modern Language Review 102 (2007): 933-46.
John Fowles's novel"A Maggot," set in eighteenth-century England, is similar to CT in several ways, from its opening premise to its general structure as a series of "tales" (reconstructions of mysterious events surrounding a death) told by various…
Alexander, Michael.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007.
Alexander traces the "set of ideals" underlying English medievalism, commenting on art, architecture, politics, and religion but focusing on literature. The study contains recurrent references to Chaucer's influence, including investigation of Walter…
Taylor, Karla.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007): 43-85.
Using the image of a volume of collected leaves, Chaucer explores the "twin problems of rivalry and rehearsal" in his sequence of MilP (the narrator's apology), MLP (the Man of Law's comments on Chaucer's writings), and WBPT (the tearing of Jankyn's…
Fragment 1 of CT (KnT, MilT, and RvT) "posit[s] contra-factual histories" for Chaucer's source texts while employing imagery of "sodomy, rape and monstrous hybrids" as refutations of those histories' threats to the structure of a salvation comedy.
Surveys the sustained influence of Italian culture in England from Chaucer through Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Gascoigne, Marston, Fletcher, and Shakespeare. Summarizes the development of Italian city-states and explores topics such as Italian influence…
Kamath, Stephanie Anne Viereck Gibbs.
DAI A67.08 (2007): n.p.
Kamath traces "the impact of the innovative form of the Roman de la Rose in French and English history," considering the use of "vernacular first-person allegory" by writers such as Deguileville, Chaucer, Lydgate, and Hoccleve.
Jeffrey, David Lyle.
Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen R. Spencer, eds. The Sermon on the Mount Through the Centuries (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos, 2007), pp. 81-107.
Jeffrey explores Chaucer's allusions to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), arguing that they reflect Chaucer's distrust of glossing and that the Sermon underpins theological themes of CT most evident in Mel and ParsT: peacemaking and obedience.
Surveys British literary responses to "some aspects of the Muslim spiritual system," identifying instances in which British literature was influenced by Sufi mysticism or reflects awareness of it. Includes summary (pp. 37-39) of parallels between…
Chaucer and Gower distance themselves from French influence in the 1380s and 1390s as a way to criticize Richard's "predilection for French literature" and to train their readers to read and interpret.
Galloway, Andrew.
Annette Harder, Alasdair A. MacDonald, and Gerrit J. Reinink, eds. Calliope's Classroom: Studies in Didactic Poetry from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Dudley, Mass.: Peeters, 2007), pp. 245-67.
Chaucer and Gower compete in seeking to articulate political and moral ideals. Whereas Gower endorses "communal governance of the ideology of self-interest," Chaucer explores a less certain "ideal union" among political, moral, and personal forms of…
Studying CT alongside early and late versions of the Wycliffite Bible reveals examples of Chaucer's nearly direct quotations from LV and of his sympathy with developments in translation theory from EV to LV, which favored more idiomatic renderings of…
Cook, Alexandra Kollontai.
DAI A67.10 (2007): n.p.
Like many of his predecessors, Chaucer explores risks in dealing with pagan sources, but he renders such risks pleasurable as a means to "destabilize Christian constructs of safety."
Bowers, John M.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press , 2007.
Chaucer's preeminence over Langland is an effect of historical and social forces and must be revised, because tradition is a conflicted notion that helps construct understanding of past, present, and future. Chaucer was a medium of this process, "the…
Boitani, Piero.
Giuseppe Galigani, ed. Italomania(s): Italy and the English Speaking World from Chaucer to Seamus Heaney. Proceedings of the Georgetown and Kent State University Conference Held in Florence in [sic] June 20-21, 2005 (Florence: Mauro Pagliai, 2007), pp. 15-25.
Boitani surveys Chaucer's "ongoing dialogue" with Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, discussing how Chaucer's borrowings reflect his "prodigious memory and striking associative and intertextual skill." Draws examples from PF, TC, KnT and ClT and…
Stubbs, Estelle.
Review of English Studies 58 (2007): 133-53.
Codicological analyses of the structure and details of Corpus Christi 198 support early suggestions by Carleton Brown, Charles Owen, and John Fisher about Chaucer's ongoing revision of CT, especially when considered in light of other early…
Rust, Martha Dana.
New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Explores relationships between texts and their paratexts in English and Scottish books produced between 1400 and 1490, considering a "variety of pre- and extralinguistic modes of interacting with and thinking through books." Examines letter-forms,…
A heretofore unrecognized reference to KnT in the "Index Britanniæ Scriptorum," compiled by sixteenth-century antiquarian John Bale, provides evidence of a lost manuscript containing Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes" plus at least Chaucer's KnT and…
