Situates Criseyde and her agency in discussions of freewill and the effect of secular society on Boethian notions of the highest good, and argues that Chaucer's depiction of Criseyde throughout the poem undercuts her apparent agency. The poem's…
Questions the identity of the book that is being read to Criseyde in Book II of TC, arguing that the answer, the title itself, cannot be known. Examines the descriptions of the book, from both Criseyde and Pandarus, and argues that the unknowability…
Friedman, John Block.
Chaucer Review 54.2 (2019): 119-40.
Focuses on a study of status in MilT and traces the positioning of Nicholas and Alisoun and their displays of their buttocks in the window toward Absolon. Fleshing out the context and history of bottom-kissing as well as the averting of demons by…
Pattison, Andrew John.
Chaucer Review 54.2 (2019): 141-61.
Contextualizes the barnyard chase scene of NPT alongside late medieval hunting treatises, and questions the juxtaposition between the chase and the medieval noble hunt. The parody of this hunt offers multiple layers of meaning, from criticism of the…
Bozick, Morgan M.
Chaucer Review 54.2 (2019): 162-90.
Offers a new interpretation of Wom Unc, a lyric attributed to Chaucer. Argues for different punctuation in the poem, and claims that the lady and subject of the poem is green herself rather than dressed in green, thus symbolizing May. The poem, then,…
Introduces a special issue of Chaucer Review focused on feminism and Chaucer that surveys the state of the field of current feminist approaches to Chaucer, offering a view of scholarship defined by interdisciplinarity and intersectionality. Articles…
Edwards, Suzanne M.
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 230-52.
Centers on Gloria Naylor's novel "Bailey's Café," and examines how feminist approaches have informed scholarship of Chaucer's work, often to battle the misogyny of his works, that nevertheless can upload the heteronormative and patriarchal values to…
Maps out the way in which anger and community are depicted in different versions of Philomela's rape, displaying the power that is represented in this anger and community, before linking this history of female anger to contemporary artists, such as…
Surveys critical and historical treatments of Philippa Chaucer, showing both the ahistorical nature of much of this work and the common, negative approach in her characterization. Emphasizes that gender plays a significant role in how these judgments…
Concentrates on Damian in MerT to show how the tale links critique of hierarchical marriage to critique of medieval estates theory. Contends that the tale counters
problems with vertical governance through horizontal governance.
Reassesses LGW through an examination of time, understood within a feminist frame, to see repetition and blurring of time and distance between dreamer and reader. Claims that this recursiveness of LGW offers open-ended possibilities for…
Argues that WBT presents a different vision of law, informed by female agency, where the focus is on reeducation. The rapist-knight is rewarded rather than punished, but this failure of justice functions as a call to activism, as the law so depicted…
Crocker, Holly A.
Chaucer Review 54.3 (2019): 352-70.
Advocates for a continued emphasis in KnT on the subjectivity of Emelye, whose endurance and forbearance are key to a kind of personhood that is open and connected, rather than the individual subjectivity connected to the masculinist order presented…
Contrasts Chaucer's version of Custance in MLT with that of Gower and Trevet in order to show how Chaucer emphasizes the foreignness of Custance in England and the negative reaction to her, comparing them with documentary instances of xenophobia…
Discusses the silence of Chaucer on the life of Boethius in Bo, then moves to examine a fifteenth-century translation of Boethius, based on Bo, that expands and adds to Chaucer's text, including material focused on Boethius himself. Traces and…
Presents a new interpretation of the historical basis of the canon from "Pars secunda" of CYT, while emphasizing Chaucer's own historical context of being at
the center of a network of connections at court and elsewhere.
Goldstein, R. James.
Chaucer Review 54.4 (2019): 482-92.
Identifies liturgical echoes in Chaucer's reworking of Dante at the end of Book V of TC, arguing that it exemplifies David Lawton's theory of voice and "public
interiorities."
Edwards, A. S. G.
Chaucer Review 55 (2020): 113-16.
Presents evidence from a "description of a manuscript of Chaucer's 'Treatise on the Astrolabe' that appeared in a sale catalogue in 1843." This description, because it doesn't correspond to any known, available copies, suggests another manuscript of…
Traces the readership of Chaucer in China, offering analyses of texts and translations available and frequency of Chaucer's verse in university curricula. Ties this readership to various factors, including interest, social context, and history.
Concentrates on the depiction of the Near East in MLT and other contemporary analogues, developing a ""comparative methodology for analyzing representations of the Near East that focuses on their adaptation of earlier (Anglo-)French sources and…
Thompson, Kenneth J.
Chaucer Review 55, no. 1 (2020): 55-69.
Corrects errors in the discussion of the Knight's Yeoman in criticism by offering a discussion of the Yeoman and his weapons in GP, and "contextualizes the peacock fletching of the Yeoman's arrows by explicating birdwing anatomy, the appearance of…
Hanssen, Ken R.
Chaucer Review 55, no. 1 (2020): 70-87.
Argues that the "ongoing negotiations between experience and authority, flesh and spirit, nature and the divine, are fluid, bidirectional, and mutually dependent" in PF. The poem depicts a cacophonous set of voices and demonstrates that the…
Examines marital rape across CT, acknowledging that, while marital rape was impossible in medieval English law, it was a topic discussed and handled throughout CT. Gives particular attention to MerT, SNT, MkT, WBPT, and ShpT.
Examines desire and intimacy in TC and "reinterprets the depiction of pleasure" in the poem, "particularly the bed scene in Book III, through an allegorical reading of medieval and modern concepts of desire."
Offers evidence for the source for the opening of the ShT, connecting it with Gilbertus Minorita's "Dictinctiones" and its quotation of then-contemporary vernacular poetry.
