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Murphy, Michael.   Eire 19.1 (1984): 133-38.
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and Anglo-Irish analogues of FrT, with music.

Scarry, Elaine.   Elaine Scarry, ed. Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. 1-36.
Explores why the world is "newly alert to its need for poetry" at the end of each century, including comments on Chaucer's writing of CT at the end of the fourteenth.

Anlezark, Daniel.   Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 297-317.
Explores differences between traditional "wisdom" literature and popular lore in Old and Middle English, discussing clashes between the "worlds of book learning and popular wisdom" in CT, especially in WBP and MilT.

Da Rold, Orietta.   Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 33-56.
Surveys textual practices in Old and Middle English literary culture, focusing on authorial anxieties about scribes, and comparing what is known and surmised about the texts of Ælfric's "Catholic Homilies" and Chaucer's CT.

Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.   Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 413-33.
Kerby-Fulton looks at autobiography and "writing the self" in medieval literature, with particular focus on how and to what extent political constraint prompts expression of self. Draws examples from Chaucer, Langland, Christine de Pizan, Thomas Usk,…

Lavezzo, Kathy.   Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 434-56.
Lavezzo considers the "complexities of medieval identity formation by surveying the depiction of Jews and Saracens in English" between Bede and the late fifteenth century. Includes comments on MLT and its presentation of Britain as a medieval "global…

Blamires, Alcuin.   Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 478-95.
Discusses representations of individuality in medieval literature, exploring concepts of "singularity" and the Chaucerian notion of "condicioun." Comments on BD, ClT, and the descriptions of the pilgrims in GP, along with a range of medieval works.

Horobin, Simon.   Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 57-67.
Horobin surveys "complex and contradictory" evidence for the professionalization of writing in England in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with comments on Chaucer's scribes (including Adam Pinkhurst), Thomas Hoccleve, and others.

Perkins, Nicholas.   Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 68-89.
Explores how the affiliation of bureaucracy and writing developed in England, plus the impact of the association on notions of authority. Mentions several petitions and warrants pertaining to Chaucer and comments on Purse and Pity as petitions.

D'Arcy, Anne Marie.   Elaine Treharne, ed. Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002), pp. 117-36.
Examines traditional depictions of Jews; points to a parallel between the murder of the clergeon in PrT and ritual murder; links the clergeon with Christ and the Prioress with the Virgin; and concludes that PrT functions as a divinely inspired…

Walker, Greg.   Elaine Treharne, ed. Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002), pp. 61-91.
Absolon's rejection of Alison's sexuality in MilT suggests the kind of masculinity invoked by Mariology and by popular representations of the Annunciation.

Treharne, Elaine.   Elaine Treharne, ed. Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts (Cambridge: Brewer, 2002), pp. 93-115.
Compares the Wife of Bath's speech in WBP and Otto Jespersen's folk-linguistic stereotyping of women's language, showing that Chaucer replicates stereotypes of women's language, ultimately undermining the Wife of Bath's authority.

Johnson, Eleanor.   Eleanor Johnson. Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023), pp. 102-25.
Reads CYP in the context of late medieval English concerns about waste as "ecosystemic misconduct par excellence," linking to the plague the Canon's Yeoman's social contagion and the damage done to him by his working environment. Explicates the…

Duffield, Brainerd.   Elgin, IL: Performance Publishing, 1973.
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Kaske, R. E.   ELH 24.4 (1957): 249-68.
Explores the implications of the Knight's "cutting short" of the MkT, contrasting the characterizations of the two pilgrims, describing the Monk as "comic imitation of knighthood," and observing contrasts and parallels in the wording, details, and…

Jordan, Robert. M.   ELH 25.4 (1958): 237-57.
Analyzes the narrator of TC as a "dramatic" character--one who is known "by what he says rather than what is said about him"--whose shifting perspectives in the poem inflect readers' opinions of the other characters and their actions. The shifts also…

Kaske, R. E.   ELH 26 (1959): 295-310.
Examines the "apparent momentary tenderness between Aleyn and Malyne" in RvT 1. 4234-48, reading the passage as a parody of the "dawn-song," variously known as the "aube," "aude," "aubade," or "tageliet," an "established form in the medieval poetry…

Underwood, Dale.   ELH 26 (1959): 455-69.
Explores paradoxes of thematic and structural order in KnT--the "mechanical" ups and downs of Fortune, the narrator's control, the human order of design and progression, accumulative resonances of Boethian material, and the "logic, justice, and order…

Yunck, John A.   ELH 27 (1960): 249-61.
Compares Chaucer's heroine in MLT with her predecessor in Trevet, arguing that Custance's passivity, her prayers, and her divinely-aided escape from the "renegade knight" combine with other religious features of the tale to make it "a romantic homily…

Olson, Paul A.   ELH 28 (1961): 203-14.
Argues that in MerT "January's love of May reflects, in heightened colors," the Merchant's own "commercial love of the world's goods." Explores the possessive nature of January's love of May, focusing on the Merchant's metaphors and references to…

Jordan, Robert M.   ELH 29 (1962): 19-33.
Challenges "dramatic" criticism of CT, arguing that "realistic illusion" is not sustained but rather "undermined" in ways that call attention to aesthetic concerns, limiting the kinds of psychological projections that some critics have imposed upon…

Kaske, R. E.   ELH 30 (1963): 175-92.
Reviews D. W. Robertson's "A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspectives" (1962), providing a brief survey of the "prevailing criticism" that challenges the exegetical, patristic, or historicist criticism that Robertson champions, and…

Gaylord, Alan T.   ELH 31 (1964): 331-65.
Argues that FranT is one of Chaucer "satiric masterpieces" and that it reveals "how ludicrously and inadequately the Franklin grasps the essence of gentle behavior." The Franklin is well intended, but the morality and reasoning of his Tale are…

Richardson, Janette.   ELH 32 (1965): 303-13.
Argues that "imagery and narrative detail" in ShT subtly undercut the Tale's "relish for quick-witted deception" and its "philosophy of money," typical of the fabliau genre. Several image clusters and their points of occurrence in the Tale evoke "the…

Miller, Robert P.   ELH 32 (1965): 442-56.
Describes the "functional similarity" between medieval exempla of obedience and WBT and Gower's Tale of Florent, illustrating the similarity by discussing fair/foul transformation and inversion motifs in various exempla, and arguing that the…
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