Lee, J. Seth.
In The Discourse of Exile in Early Modern English Literature (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 15-33.
Treats Nicholas Trevet's, John Gower's, and Chaucer's tales of Constance as seriatim clarifications of "mens exili" (the mind of exile) in preparation for discussing relations between "exilic experience" and "national formation and nationalistic…
Cady, Diane.
New Medieval Literatures 17 (2017): 115-49.
Explores medieval analogies between "storytelling and merchandizing" and how both relate to gender in MLT, clarifying connections between the travel narrative, its rhetoric, and the poverty prologue, and commenting on source and analogue relations.…
Explores three "models" for considering medieval studies in the context of world literatures--"Mediterraneans," "distant reading," and "moving things"--using the last to compare MLT and the Ethiopian "Kebra nagast" and assess "Mandeville'sTravels"…
Edwards, A. S. G.
Notes and Queries 262 (2017): 220-21.
Encourages editors to adopt the manuscript variant "his" (rather than "hir") at the end of the Cook's fragment (CkT 1.4422), which would indicate that the wife prostituted herself "not to make her own living, but in order to provide money for her…
Argues that, rooted in "animality" that is "carefully performed and constructed," the humor of MilT "functions to erect a conception of humanity over and against the ostracized and inferior semi-human." The Miller performs his animality, and,…
Ohno, Hideshi, Akiyuki Jimura, Yoshiyuki Nakao, Noriyuki Kawano, and Kenichi Satoh.
Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 62 (2018): 1-13.
Examines linguistic features of Pynson's and de Worde's editions of KnT and discusses similarities to and difference from each other, Caxton's editions, and the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.
Explores prosimetrum in the Arthurian "Tristan en prose" as a way to understand Palamon's actions after he overhears Arcite's "formally elegant rondeau" in KnT 1.1510ff.
Maslanka, Christopher.
Journal of Religion & Literature 49,3 (2017): 101-20.
Discusses the connection between physicality and personality in St. Christopher's hagiography in the "South English Legendary" and, in expanding this connection, uses Chaucer's descriptions of the Miller and the Wife of Bath in GP as additional…
Hannis, Grant.
In Sue Joseph and Richard Keeble, eds. Profile Pieces: Journalism and the "Human Interest" Bias (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 17-29.
Opens a volume of essays on the journalistic practice of "painting a picture [of a person] in words," including discussion of the depiction of a "cross-section of Chaucer's contemporary English society" in CT--in GP and elsewhere--with particular…
Clark, Roy Peter.
In The Art of X-Ray Reading: How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing (New York: Little, Brown, 2016), pp. 149-59.
Reads the opening of GP (lines 1–18) as a periodic sentence that "builds to a main clause near its end," describes its thematic concern with rebirth and regeneration, and explores the possibility of regarding weather as character or as a metaphor…
Carlin, Martha.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 413–21.
Distinguishes among taverns, alehouses, and public inns, providing historical evidence that the latter were in Chaucer's day a "new institution," and maintaining that his setting of the opening of GP in an inn engages an emergent social culture,…
Williams, Tara.
University Park: Penn State University Press, 2018.
Presents a multidisciplinary "theory of the marvelous" in Middle English literature. Focuses on how fourteenth-century texts, including CT, "represent a coherent and previously unrecognized theory of the marvelous, one focused on the intersection of…
Makes the case that Boccaccio responds in the many trial scenes of the "Decameron" to contemporary concerns about verisimilitude in judicial proceedings. Claims that Boccaccio shifts in the role of judicial figures from mediators to determiners of…
Peck, Russell A.
In Craig M. Nakashian and Daniel P. Franke, eds. Prowess, Piety, and Public Order in Medieval Society: Studies in Honor of Richard W. Kaeuper (Boston, Mass.: Brill, 2017), pp. 344-67.
Analyzes imagery of worthiness in TC and CT, compared with John Gower's "Mirour de l'omme," "Piers Plowman," and Geffroi de Charny's "Book of Chivalry." Focuses on patience, penance, pilgrimage, and the "timing for one's acts," exploring uses of…
Kallas, Piotr.
In Magdalena Grabowska, Grzegorz Grzegorczyk, and Piotr Kallas, eds. Narrativity in Action (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 77-100.
Describes (and reiterates) appreciation of Ricardian culture, exploring ways that Chaucer evokes a strong sense of contemporary London in CT and how, in "The Clerkenwell Tales," Peter Ackroyd evokes a similar sense of reality.
Halbrooks, John.
Essays in Medieval Studies 33 (2018): 1-9.
Argues that the birdsong of GP, line 9, and the silencing of the crow in ManT indicate "the permeable animal/human boundary" in CT, evidence of a mutual "soundscape" or a shared "acoustic community." Includes comments on avian and human communication…
Argues that in their ordering of Chaucer's text and in their various and dynamic forms, manuscripts of CT successfully instantiate Chaucer's dynamic idea of his text, the complex conditions for pre-print book production, and the disaggregated forms…
Fitzpatrick, Joan.
In Charlotte Boyce and Joan Fitzpatrick, A History of Food in Literature: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 15–62.
Includes discussion of food, drink, abstinence, feasting, gluttony, hunting, etc. in CT (pp. 35-52), observing Chaucer's consistent attention to moral and social implications, and comparing his depictions with those found in "Piers Plowman," "Sir…
Epstein, Robert.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2018.
Explores the "gift economy" and commercial culture of CT, and applies gift theory and economic anthropology to medieval literary criticism. Examines "gender of the gift," exchange of women, and gifts in GP. Chapter 6 focuses on the Franklin's gifts…
Barrington, Candace, Brantley L. Bryant, Richard H. Godden, Daniel T. Kline, and Myra Seaman, eds.
Website (2017). Available at https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/ (accessed March 7, 2020). Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Comprises thirty-six "introductory essays for first-time, university-level readers" of CT, written by more than thirty "professional scholars," covering GP and each of the tales (two each for KnT, WBPT, and MerT), the Host and frame, Chaucer's…
Zhang, Lian.
American Notes and Queries 31.1 (2018): 9.
Examines translations of Chaucer's name in light of Chinese traditions, specifically with regard to a family's values and wishes revealed through name choice.
