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Investigates eighteenth-century modernizations of Chaucer's work (especially CT), with an eye toward the period's political issues and a consideration of those modernizers' contributions to later scholarly apparatus.

While examining Thomas Hoccleve, John Skelton, and Ben Jonson, suggests that Hoccleve "channels" Harry Bailly from CT as a demotic voice, drawing upon the routines of London life in the establishment of an "English writerly voice worthy of laureate…

Views CT as one of several works that provide examples of the definition and theorization of the captive in late medieval and early modern texts.

Argues that Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" provides Chaucer with a means of understanding time as a unified and simultaneous whole, and that he deploys this understanding in the dream visions, and especially TC.

Uses KnT, among other works, in a study of medieval works combining prose and lyric poetry (common in France, but less studied in English.)

Examines "the paratextual, literary, historical, and physical ways print books serve as brokers of authority," including discussion of how William Caxton, in his editions of Chaucer, "inaugurates the printer as a necessary intermediary between the…

Argues that the "bond between parent and child in late medieval England was deeply felt and often conflicted as demonstrated by the literature of the period," including MLT.

Argues that "late medieval dream poets viewed writing as a serious means of therapy, capable of healing both psychological and physiological ailments." Includes discussion of HF where Chaucer combines "performative humor" and "strong sensory imagery"…

In the course of examining changing ideas of female readers, considers Chaucer's self-definition as a "writer of feminine genres" (e.g., devotions, saints' lives, and conduct literature).

Traces "the creative potentials of technologies of memory in the rise of English lyric poetry," focusing on Chaucer and Thomas Wyatt, and including assessment of how "innovations of lyric form are introduced" in TC "at moments in which memory is most…

Studies "depictions of armor" in CT, Malory's "Le Morte D'Arthur," and Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," "exploring how these works help us understand medievalism in contemporary media," and investigating "how armored bodies function as a way to think…

Examines Chaucer's engagement with his French contemporaries (e.g., Machaut, Froissart, Deschamps), suggesting that Chaucer may have adapted elements from those writers such as voice and form in establishing his own poetic authority.

Links the rise of falconry in the Middle Ages to the use of falconers' discourses as lenses for understanding texts. Discusses falconry metaphors in TC.

Includes discussion of Chaucer's "two brief glimpses" of Solomon as a figure of wisdom in CT, and more extended discussion of Solomon as author in Mel, WBP, MerT, and ParsT.

Considers the use of women and their bodies as metaphorical vehicles for the consideration of Christian life, with particular attention to MLT and SNT.

In the course of a discussion of a medieval aesthetic associating romance's luxury with aristocracy, finds examples in HF and TC, among other period works.

Examines Horatian influence on works ranging from the Exeter Book to Langland, Gower, and Fragments VIII and IX of CT.

Argues that fourteenth-and fifteenth-century dream visions "challenged routine modes of thinking about and being in the world." Chapter 4 includes discussion of stained glass in HF and John Lydgate's "Temple of Glass."

Considers Spenser's perception of Chaucer as inspiration, influence, and creator whose creations have themselves been mediated by other writers and society.

Examines CT and Gower's "Confessio Amantis" as part of an imaginative reaction to the political circumstances following the Second Barons' War, arriving at a new role in "speaking to and for" the Henrician community.

Considers how Chaucer (in ClT, LGW, and ParsT) develops the concept of pity from European sources, and privileges the concept in English literary discourse.

Uses WBT as a case study in the development of circumcision's use as a metaphor for situations ranging from shifting of intellectual ground to the process of reading itself.

Argues that Middle English romances reflect "medieval awareness of the problems caused by militarization." Includes discussion of KnT where, "for hardened fighting men who have seen years of service in war, combat is always 'real,' and conduct…

Considers the philosophical ramifications of understanding music, particularly as evidenced in BD, HF, PF, and ManT.

Considers Shakespeare's intersections with Chaucerian works (e.g., KnT and TC) with regard to the idea of plays gaining regard as literary works in and of themselves.