Edwards, Robert R.
Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, eds. The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales: New Essays on an Old Question (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), pp. 226-46.
Both Boccaccio in Decameron and Chaucer in FranT rewrite the story of Menedon from Filocolo, and both investigate whether social worth is dependent on lineage or character. While Boccaccio emphasizes the new urban nontraditional man, Chaucer attempts…
Edwards, Robert R.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; and New York : Palgrave, 2002.
Boccaccio provided Chaucer with a means for understanding and configuring antiquity and modernity. Chapter 1 focuses on kinds of love, tensions in Theseus's rule, and the subjugation of women in KnT. Chapter 2 explores how chroniclers, Boccaccio, and…
Edwards, Robert R.
Patrick Cheney and Frederick A. de Armas, eds. European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 104-28.
The twin rubrics of succession and invention guide Statius's response to Virgil and, in turn, Boccaccio's response to Statius, Chaucer's responses to Boccaccio, and Lydgate's response to Chaucer. By exploiting the silences of their predecessors, the…
Discusses John Stow's 1561 edition of Chaucer's works, in which Stow includes Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes" to expand Chaucer's canon. The inclusion helped shape the idea of Chaucer in the Renaissance, with far-reaching consequences for subsequent…
Edwards, Robert R.
Carolyn P. Collette, ed. The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 59-82.
Explores the "political erotics" of LGWP, especially the G version, assessing how Cupid's treatment of the narrator and Alceste's intercession reflect political conditions, concepts of tyranny, and notions of loyalty and fidelity.
Edwards, Robert R.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Seven chapters on topics related to Ovid, Augustine, Hloïse and Abélard, Marie de France, Dante, Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer's relations with Boccaccio and Dante in TC. Grounded in Augustinian, Ovidian, and biblical models, TC (lines 5.540 ff.)…
Edwards, Robert R.
Vinay Dharwadker, ed. Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture. Essays from the English Institute (New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 33-62.
Crossing tendencies characterize the "cosmopolitanism" of the late Middle Ages, and the story of Troy is the "paradigmatic cosmopolitan narrative." Edwards comments on Lydgate's "Troy Book" and addresses the mysterious pagan judge of "Saint…
Edwards, Robert R.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 3-24.
Reconsiders Chaucer's use of Italian sources and his references to Italy and Italian regions (including Rome), focusing on ways that Italy was a geographical and cultural place of strangeness. Authors such as Chaucer and Gower negotiated tensions…
Edwards, Robert R.
Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 52 (2005-2006): 5-17.
Contemplates relations between Ernst Curtius' imperial understanding of medieval literature with modern theories of postcoloniality, analyzing passages from Marie de France, Dante, and Chaucer to show what they can tell us about the "cultural…
Edwards, Robert R.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017.
Investigates the rhetorical and creative potentials of the idea of authorship as it developed in medieval English literature and established the basis of authorial "prestige and power" for future literary tradition. Individual chapters assess works…
Edwards, Robert R.
Tamara Atkin and Jaclyn Rajsic, eds. Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Professor Julia Boffey (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2019), pp. 167–81.
Considers Chaucer's uses of Theban material drawn from the tradition of Statius and Boccaccio, exploring how he adapted his sources and how, in turn, his works were adapted by others. Surveys the "exemplary power" of Thebes in Chaucer's works, and…
Edwards, Robert R., ed.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994.
Twelve essays by different hands address the "poetic art that emerges in late medieval English narrative out of multiple historical contexts." Treating Langland, Chaucer, and other late-medieval poets, the collection includes an introduction by the…
Edwards, Robert R., ed.
Middle English Texts. Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2001.
A teaching edition of "The Siege of Thebes," with introduction, marginal glosses, textual and explanatory notes, select bibliography, and glossary. The introduction and notes clarify Lydgate's engagement with KnT, the frame of CT, and TC and discuss…
Surveys representations of sexual violence as both gender oppression and means to self-awareness between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries in England, discussing WBPT and Mel, among other texts.
Edwards, Suzanne M.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Investigates the "discourses of [rape] survival" in medieval literature and its historical contexts, addressing the aftereffects of rape as they are depicted in saints' lives, anchoritic literature, accounts of raped wives (particularly Lucretia in…
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…
Reads the rape motif of WBT against the background, context, and language of the Statute of Rapes (1382), arguing that the tale uses "narrative strategies made possible in late-medieval regulation of 'raptus'" to present "the realities of gendered…
Edwards. Jennifer C.
Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2022.
Introductory survey of the conditions and experiences of women in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, designed for pedagogical use. Includes chapters on Marriage, Motherhood, Royal and Noblewomen, Urban and Rural Women, Sex and Sexuality, and…
The Host's retort to the Pardoner at the close of PardT reinforces a connection between the terms and concepts of testicles (false or otherwise) and relics (false or otherwise). A trilingual collection (French, Latin, and English) of terms along with…
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this volume of conference proceedings includes an essay entitled "De la Fée Morgane à la Femme de Bath de Chaucer"; no author indicated.
Response to saints' legends is normally sober, but "Legenda Aurea," Chaucer's source for SNT, exhibits flashes of humor. In a reading of SNT that accepts the natural response of laughter, Valerian, Tiburce, and Almachius are seen to play the fool,…
Ehrhart, Margaret Jean.
Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 7299A-300A.
Through study of Machaut's 'dits', we begin to get a sense of what Chaucer saw in Machaut's work. In addition to appreciation of his style, Chaucer must have recognized in Machaut's constant theme--human love, rightly and wrongly ordered--a sense of…
