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Coghill, Nevill.   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Reprints the 1949 edition, with few minor changes and an added "Selected Reading List" (pp. 137-39.)

Coghill, Nevill.   D. S. Brewer, ed. Chaucer and Chaucerians: Critical Studies in Middle English Literature (University: University of Alabama Press; London: Nelson, 1966), pp. 114-39.
Describes Chaucer's rhetoric and style in CT, exploring his orchestration of narrative economy, climax, pace (especially in relation to rhyme and meter), and verisimilitude, Identifies "flaws" in SumT and PhyT, and admires the symbolic…

Coghill, Nevill.   London: English Association, 1971.
Explores the history of the idea of nobility or gentility in European tradition, tracing the etymology of "gentilesse" and Chaucer's importance in the development of the concept in English, especially in KnT, FranT, and WBT. Links Chaucer's uses to…

Coghill, Nevill.   Herbert Davies, and Helen Gardner, eds. Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies: Presented to Percy Wilson in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon, 1959), pp. 86-99.
Tallies a number of images, expressions, and "notional similarities" that evince Chaucer's influence on Shakespeare, reviewing previous scholarship, adding several examples, and arguing that the influence is strongest when Shakespeare was about…

Cohen, Barbara, trans.   New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Books, 1988.
Modern prose translation, intended for children, of NPPT, PardPT, WBPT, and FranPT, with a version of GP that lacks the descriptions of the pilgrims. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; Introduction (pp. 7-8) by Christopher Baswell.

Cohen, Edward S.   Chaucer Review 9 (1974): 190-95.
Proposes a new sequence for the parts of CT, one in which the tales of the Physician and Pardoner follow that of the Man of Law and in turn are followed by those of the Shipman, Prioress, etc. In light of this sequence and its arrangement of…

Cohen, Hennig.   Notes and Queries 203 (1958): 245.
Locates an allusion to "Chaucers Bootes" (see Bo 4m5) in line 17 of Nathaniel Ward's "commendatory poem" written for Anne Bradstreet's "Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America . . ." (1650).

Cohen, Jeffrey James.   Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 91-108
Ecocritical examination of "heavy atmosphere" as an environmental state, an affective state, and/or a narrative tone or "feel" in several of Chaucer's narratives, with focus on RvT, TC, and KnT. Explores parallels between medieval cosmology, humoral…

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, and Linda T. Elkins-Tanton.   New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
An edited epistolary exchange between medievalist Cohen and physical scientist Elkins-Tanton, exploring humanist and scientific perspectives on epistemology, point of view, temporality, beauty, and human comprehension of the earth and the cosmos.…

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.   New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Fourteen essays by various authors and an introduction by Cohen, using and critiquing postcolonial theory in discussing medieval texts. Topics include the idea of the Orient; notions of time (temporalities) in postcolonial studies; Christian…

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.   Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Bodies in medieval literature are depicted as rhizomatic, unfinished identity machines invented by texts, such as TC, CT, and others. Commentary draws on theories of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and others. Particular references to SqT, WBP,…

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.   Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 143-55.
One of the dominant themes of fragment 7 of CT is the "gendering of male bodies." The theme plays out through the shrinking masculinity ofThopas and the absence of menacing sexuality in his encounter with Olifaunt. It parallels the diminution of…

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.   Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Argues that giants can represent the lost prehistory of the masculine body and therefore figure its present and dangerous instability. Six chapters and an introduction focus on the English Middle Ages. Chapter 4 (pp. 96-118) discusses Chaucer's Th,…

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.   Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 31: 113-46, 2001.
Echoing Chaucer's poetry while portraying non-Christian, racialized others, the Middle English romance "The Sultan of Babylon" invokes a "Saracen Chaucer" whose status as national poet depends on such markers of difference.

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.   Dorsey Armstrong, Ann W. Astell, and Howell Chickering, eds. Magistra doctissima: Essays in Honor of Bonnie Wheeler (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2013), pp. 25-33.
Interrogates Chaucer's diminishment or elimination of Scottish, Irish, and especially Welsh aspects of his narrative materials in WBT, FranT, and MLT, arguing that he associated the Celtic fairy world with death, as it is also associated in "Sir…

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.   Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
An extended essay in "thinking beyond anthropocentrality" by appreciating "lithic" ontology and "geophilia" ("geology without dispassion"), an example of posthumanist, object-oriented consideration that seeks to dislodge assumptions about…

Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.   Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 547-62.
Discusses space and Chaucer's connections to Britain, suggesting first that FranT is central to "Chaucer's relation to Britain," which "can be discerned in a throwaway
line" from the tale. Surveys the landscape of Chaucer's Britain through readings…

Cohen, Jeffrey, and Bonnie Wheeler, eds.   New York and London: Garland, 1997.
Eighteen essays by various authors and an introduction on topics ranging from Old English penitentials to Sir David Lindsey. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Becoming Male in the Middle Ages under Alternative Title.

Cohen, Jeremy.   Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Surveys the historical understanding and application of Gen. 1.28, tracing its "career" in Scripture, its interpretations in Hebrew and Christian traditions, and its roles in such literature as Bernard Silvestris's "Cosmographia," Alain de Lille's…

Coldiron, A. E. B.   Chaucer Review 38: 1-15, 2003.
In the course of "Englishing" certain foreign texts, some early printers used Chaucerian "paratexts," evoking Chaucer's works, allusions, or style in efforts to bridge the gap between one literary period and the next and to express nostalgia for a…

Cole, Andrew, and Andrew Galloway, eds.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Presents a collection of essays to support teaching of "Piers Plowman." For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for The Cambridge Companion to Piers Plowman under Alternative Title.

Cole, Andrew.   Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2704A, 2001.
Although many assume that Chaucer and Langland felt compelled to revise their works to avoid anti-Wycliffite censorship, such censorship was restricted to clerical writing. Chaucer drew on Wycliffite translation techniques to improve his skill, as…

Cole, Andrew.   Speculum 77 : 1128-67, 2002.
Explores how Chaucer's prologue to Astr engaged "new models of English translation" from the 1380s, including Wycliffite translations. Traditionally, critics have focused on Chaucer's continental models of translation.

Cole, Andrew.   Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Post-Wycliffite writing has a different character from that which preceded it. Writers of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, including Chaucer, produced works with this novel character, often defined as heretical. Cole connects…

Cole, Andrew.   Chaucer Review 52.1 (2017): 46-65.
Examines the ways in which Gower and Chaucer use their source material differently. Gower uses Ovid to emphasize morality while Chaucer uses Ovid to explore both the courtly and the romantic.
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