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Middle English: Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 78 (2000): 232-61.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 1997, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Middle English: Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 80 (2001):183-210.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 1999, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Middle English: Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 79 (2001):196-226.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 1998, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Middle English: Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 81 (2002): 230-60.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2000, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Middle English: Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 82 : 190-224, 2003.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2001, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Middle English: Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 83 (2004): 194-224.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2002, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Middle English: Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Sstudies 84 (2005): 222-55
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2003, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Middle English : Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 85: 236-63, 2006.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2004, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Middle English : Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 86 (2007): 279-309
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2005, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Later Medieval: Chaucer
Allen, Valerie, and Margaret Connolly.
Year's Work in English Studies 87 (2008): 278-313.
A discursive bibliography of Chaucer studies for 2006, divided into four subcategories: general, CT, TC, and other works.
Roadworks: Medieval Britain, Medieval Roads.
Allen, Valerie, and Ruth Evans, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
Twelve essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors explore the material and symbolic status of roads in medieval history and literature. The volume includes a bibliography and index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search…
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
Allen, Valerie, ed.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
A school-text Middle English edition of MilPT and the GP description of the Miller, with notes, a running narrative summary, and facing-page glosses. Accompanied by commentary on several topics (Chaucer's language, town versus gown in Oxford,…
Blaunche on Top and Alisoun on Bottom
Allen, Valerie.
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 23-29.
Blaunche's description in BD centers on her eyes, whereas Alisoun's in MilT centers on her bottom. These descriptions show the relationship between each character's essential and physical selves, suggesting that both characters "locate their virtue…
The 'Firste Stok' in Chaucer's 'Gentilesse': Barking up the Right Tree
Allen, Valerie.
Review of English Studies, n.s., 40 (1989): 531-37.
The "first stok" of Gent 1 refers to God as the father of "gentilesse" of Gent 8, to Christ as its exemplar and model. The genealogical image operates as metaphor, pun, and paradox in the poem.
Portrait of a Lady: Blaunche and the Descriptive Tradition
Allen, Valerie.
English Studies 74 (1993): 324-42.
Argues that Chaucer's portrait of Blaunche in BD is not a mere rhetorical exercise in the tradition of Vinsauf's prescriptions but "a serious attempt" to reform the "descriptio feminae," exploring identity by examining the relation between mind and…
Playing Soldiers: Tournament and Toxophily in Late-Medieval England
Allen, Valerie.
Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), pp. 35-52.
Allen explores the showiness and ideology of tournaments in late medieval England, not only for knights but also for archers, focusing on Roger Ascham's "Toxophilus" for information about the latter. Allen comments on Chaucer's GP Yeoman as an absent…
Waxing Red: Shame and the Body, Shame and the Soul
Allen, Valerie.
Lisa Perfetti, ed. The Representation of Women's Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005, pp. 191-210.
Uses examples from Chaucer, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and the "Ancrene Wisse" to explore how shame differs for men and women. For men, shame stems from a wide range of cultural experiences associated with chivalry, while women's shame is…
The Age of Chaucer
Allen, Valerie.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Introduction and study guide to Chaucer and his works (especially CT), with emphasis on connections with contemporaneous history and literature. Includes advice on how to approach medieval texts; extracts from the literature with discussion; a …
On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages
Allen, Valerie.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Considers the imagery and implications of flatulence, wind, excrement, and refuse in medieval culture, considering anecdotes, visual imagery, religious commentary, and other literature. Occasional mention of Chaucer's works, with focused attention…
Chaucer and the Poetics of Gold.
Allen, Valerie.
Beatrice Fannon, ed. Medieval English Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 144-60.
Draws on connections between "Chaucerian poetics and the properties . . . of gold," and maintains that "gold is a deep metaphor for poetry." Examines Chaucer's poetic references to gold and "sumptuous description" in CT, particularly in KnT.
The Song of Songs as Literary Influence in Selected Works of the English Renaissance
Allingham, Anthony.
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1977): 5840A.
The "Song of Songs" has received little attention for its influence on other literary works. In two of CT tales, Chaucer exploits the allegorical interpretations of the "Song." The ambiguity of the interpretations in the Christian era made the…
The Fabliau in Medieval England
Allinson, Jane Frank.
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 1140A.
The nine surviving Anglo-Norman fabliaux (three translated from manuscripts are appended) differ from their seven English counterparts (five in CT) in depicting higher social ranks, incorporating less violence, and introducing less antifeminism. …
Sociolinguistics, Literature, and the Reeve's Tale
Allman, W. W.
English Studies 85 (2004): 385-404.
In light of sociolinguistic categories such as register, distance-solidarity, and dialect, Allman contends, RvPT and the Reeve's portrait in GP stand as sustained examinations of failed sociality and unsatisfied desire at both dramatic and narrative…
Rough Love: Notes Toward an Erotics of The Canterbury Tales
Allman, W. W., and D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.
Chaucer Review 38: 36-65. , 2003.
A "bodily economy of piercing men and pierced women" can be found throughout CT. Lovemaking is associated with cutting, stabbing, bleeding, and dying. The only accounts of lovemaking not connected to stabbing or bloodletting occur in the musical…
Chaucerian 'Rekenynges': Modeling Authority
Allman, Wendy West.
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2642A.
Chaucer's uses of political discourse intersect with his concerns about poetic authority. In PF, "commune profyt" represents both an equivocal political ideal and an idealized community of readers. In KnT, just as Theseus aestheticizes his reign,…
