Condren, Edward I.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.
Condren explores similarities of theme and technique in BD, PF, HF and TC, focusing on numerical composition and Chaucer's "self-dialogue" on poetry and love. Biographical reading of BD reveals that the man in black is not Gaunt but the dreamer's…
Tolan, John.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993.
Surveys the life and works of Petrus Alfonsi and the reception of his two major works: the anti-Jewish "Dialogi contra Iudaeos" and his collection of tales and wisdom literature, "Disciplina clericus." Tolan briefly mentions Mel as evidence of…
Calabrese, Michael A.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.
Examines Chaucer's uses of Ovid, assessing the former's perception of the ancient poet, tracing Ovidian reception in the Middle Ages, and exploring Chaucer's reflection of Ovid's stuggles with life and art.
Purdon, Liam O., and Cindy L. Vitto, eds.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994.
Twelve essays examine the decline of the feudal ideal, an ideal that may never have existed in practice. Exploring interactions between literature and sociohistorical data, contributors outline various gaps between feudal ideals and realities: …
Farrell, Thomas J., ed.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995.
Eleven essays by various authors including three on Chaucer. Each essay applies the critical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin to one or more works of medieval literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Bakhtin and Medieval Voices…
Cox, Catherine S.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
A study of "the interconnectedness of gender, epistemology, and poetics in Chaucer's texts," focusing on "idioms of gender that attend narrative protocols of reflexitivity and appropriation." Examines the linguistic, discursive, and sexual…
Howes, Laura L.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
Examines gardens in Chaucer's narratives as a means to show how literary and social conventions impose constraints and provide opportunities for the poet and characters alike to react to conventions. Surveys literary and historical gardens with…
De Looze, Laurence.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
Defines a genre that "plays with questions of truth, authority, and the relationship between the life 'in' a book and life 'outside' a book," a genre that both asserts autobiographical verity and calls "into question the possibility that the…
Krier, Theresa M.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
Ten essays by various authors on the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reception of Chaucer, as reflected in editing practice, growth of the canon, and poetic imitation and emulation. In "Introduction: Receiving Chaucer in Renaissance England,"…
McGerr, Rosemarie P.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
Argues that all of Chaucer's major works "play with medieval concepts of closure" and that the inconclusiveness of these works self-consciously indicates that readers generate their own meanings.
Roberts, Anna, ed.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
Ten essays by various authors, including discussions of AElfric's female saints, "Emare," English translations of Christine de Pizan, and other topics. Includes a slightly revised reprint of Carolyn Dinshaw's "Rivalry, Rape, and Manhood: Gower and…
Russell, J. Stephen.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998.
Argues that medieval language theory and the arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric inform CT. They provided Chaucer with his fundamental awareness of the slipperiness of language-its inability to represent truth and reality and its ability to distort…
Salisbury, Eve, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price, eds.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
Thirteen essays by various authors discuss the portrayal of domestic violence in medieval literary, iconographic, legal, religious, and dramatic texts, focusing on how the texts reflect the family as a microcosm of society. For essays that pertain to…
Black, Nancy B.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
In narratives of falsely accused queens, the queens frequently undergo periods of exile that refine their souls through poverty and suffering. Black compares the Constance narratives by Nicholas Trevet, Gower, and Chaucer, examining each version in…
Calabrese, Michael.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016.
Presents comprehensive overview of all three iterations of Langland's "Piers Plowman." Provides discussion of differences between Langland's characters and Chaucer's depictions of social characters in GP.
Palmer, R. Barton, and Burt Kimmelman, eds.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017.
Ten essays by various authors treat the impact and legacy of Guillaume de Machaut's works, especially "his judgment series" of poems, and the ways they influence writers from Chaucer and John Gower to Marcel Proust and Philip Roth. For four essays…
Newman, Andrea.
Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, 1977.
A novel with recurrent allusions to TC, including a five-book structure, epigraphs derived from Nevill Coghill's translation of TC, and overt references to the poem.
Cook, Daniel, ed.
Garden City, N. Y.: Anchor, 1966.
An edition of TC with facing-page glosses and occasional notes, preceded by an Introduction (pp. vii-xxxviii) that includes a summary of the medieval Troy story, commentary on Chaucer's source material (Boccaccio, Boethius, and the conventions of…
Faulkner, Nancy.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.
Historical novel for juvenile readers, set in London in 1381. Follows the growing romantic friendship between Kate, serving maid to Chaucer in his Aldgate residence, and a young commoner, Adam, who chooses to remain in London after the Uprising…
Untermeyer, Louis, ed.
Garden City, NY: Hanover House, 1956.
Anthologizes (with commentary) a wide variety of ribald texts and excerpts from the "Ancients" to the "Moderns," including among "Renaissance" works MilT, RvT, and WBP in Theodore Morrison's translations.
Greene, Darragh.
Garry L. Hagberg, ed. Literature and Its Language: Philosophical Aspects (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 149-71.
Explores the question of what Chaucer "holds to be the nature of reality," focusing on "the metaphysics of beauty" in PF, the "nature of the rocks" in FranT, and the "ontology of narrative itself" in NPT, and showing that "Chaucer's sensate faith in…
Williams, David
Gary Wihl and David Williams, eds. Literature and Ethics: Essays Presented to A. E. Malloch (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988), pp. 77-95.
In FrT, Chaucer satirizes some "excesses of fourteenth-century logical demonstration" and develops a "theory of fiction from the theories of intention current in his day." Intentionality involves the "relation of language to the real," and…
LGW illustrates the importance of fidelity to one's pledges. Chaucer shows that "act, speech, and writing, when captured by image, text, and imagination, preserve love beyond its transitory moment of existence" (50). The written experiences of the…
Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey.
Geardagum 08 (1987): 1-12.
Critics have argued that Chaucer intended the reader to view Criseyde as a woman destined to be a whore, Diomede as an unscrupulous seducer, and Troilus as an ideal knight. But if a fourteenth-century view is adopted, Diomede can be viewed in a…
Three types of secret love can be found in TC and CT--KnT, MilT, RvT, MerT, FranT, ShT. The first type concentrates on secret feelings; the second, on illicit relations. The third, found particularly in TC, is distinct in that the story "follows…
