Harvey, Elizabeth D.
Edelgard E. DuBruck, ed. New Images of Women (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989), pp. 47-60.
Harvey examines "tongue" as metonymy for voice: women were often victims of the wagging tongue. To be "rolled" on "many a tongue" describes both erotic and discursive powerlessness in LGW and TC. Descended from the Ovidian ironic palinode in…
Harvey, Gordon Charles.
Dissertation Abstracts International 49 (1988): 1150A.
Redirecting the verse letter from Horatian urbanity and medieval rhetoric, Chaucer achieves an intimate, familiar tone. His successors from Dunbar to the Renaissance develop variously.
Harvey, Nancy Lenz.
David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. The Work of Dissimilitude: Essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992), pp. 48-56.
Chaucer plays on his audience's awareness that Boccaccio (not Lollius) is the true source of TC; he also engages in similar play between the pagan setting of the poem and its Christian message.
Harvey, Patricia A.
Notes and Queries 213 (1968): 243-44.
Adduces two instances in Middle English of the use of "point" with musical connotations, and suggests that the use of the term in TC 3.695 gains complexity from such connotations.
Explores the "really profound difference" between the Reeve and the Miller, commenting on the Miller's rich characterizations in MilT and the vitality and "kind of justice" that underlies the outcome of his Tale. RvT, conversely, is an unwholesome…
Harward, Vernon.
Studies in Scottish Literature 10 (1972): 48-50.
Argues that Troilus's wooing and loss of Criseyde in TC influenced the depiction of Wallace's wooing and loss of the Bradefute maiden in Hary's "Wallace."
Harwood, Britton [J.]
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 47-57.
"Parapractic" repetitions in PardPT indicate that the Pardoner may be an "unconscious inversion" of Chaucer's own desires for home and for his absent father.
Harwood, Britton J.
Chaucer Review 26 (1992): 343-49.
The immobile house of Fame and the whirling cage of rumor are linked to each other much as a subject and a predicate are. FrT and SumT are held together by Chaucer's sense of sentences as "full-blown speech acts": in the former, the same words are…
Harwood, Britton J.
Review of English Studies 39 (1988): 413-17.
The haberdasher, carpenter, weaver, dyer, and tapestry maker of the GP must each have belonged to his own "communitas," or mystery, and the five could not (by law and custom) be members of a sixth company. Harwood shows that the "fraternitee" was…
Harwood, Britton J.
Philological Quarterly 67 (1988): 409-22.
Chaucer's Pardoner is the ultimate "confidence man," a mask layered over the persona of the character and the authorial voice. Yet, his very distance from the other pilgrims provides him a kind of opennes. For purposes of contrast, and to emphasize…
The disjuncture between the confessional (yet not moral) part 1 and the fabliau-like part 2 of CYT derives in part from the essential split between the futile effort toward production in part 1 and the nonproductive but successful cheating of part 2.…
NPT reveals "the dangerous nature of signs" and offers a view of signification that looks forward to Derrida. The many oppositions foregrounded in the poem (truth/fiction, "confusio"/"blis," predestination/free will, etc.) point to the inscription…
Harwood, Britton J.
Britton J. Harwood and Gillian R. Overing, eds. Class and Gender in Early English Literature: Intersections (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), pp. 95-111.
An analogy between gender and class applied to HF reveals that Lady Fame assumes a typical paternal role in naming the tidings that exit the House of Rumor. Although Chaucer's source is Ovid, he divides Fame's house along strict class lines--the…
Harwood, Britton J.
Richard Utz and Tom Shippey, eds. Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998), pp. 379-92.
Recent works of Chaucer scholarship depict a bourgeois Chaucer articulating contemporary American ideology; thus, they work to reproduce that ideology.
Harwood, Britton J.
English Literary History 68: 1-27, 2001.
Examines the "unconscious content" of RvT through a number of Chaucer's own "identifications": with Sir Edmund de la Pole, owner of the mill at Trumpington and brother of Sir Roger de la Pole; with Symkyn and the exorbitance of his social…
Psychoanalytic reading of PF that identifies a reversal of the "logical sequence of origin, wish, and desire." This reversal "represses consciousness" and disguises the presence of the "Chaucerian ego" of the poem that is recognizable in the…
Harwood, Britton J.
Studies in Philology 103 (2006): 26-46.
Explores gift-giving in Part 5 of CT, from the magical gifts given to Ghengis Khan in SqT to the concern with generosity that ends FranT. Uses Derridean notions of gifts and exchange to argue that the sequence is Chaucer's means to "erase…
Harwood, Britton J.
Chaucer Review 6.4 (1972): 268-79.
Tallies Chaucer's modifications of his sources in ManT, especially the digressions he adds, to show that the "subject of the tale is language." In his tale, the Manciple "sneers at" people who "can be distracted from empirical reality by language,"…
Harwood, Britton J.
Modern Language Quarterly 33 (1972): 257-73.
Analyzes the Wife of Bath's sense of guilt for her life of lust and rapaciousness, reading details of WBP as evidence of this guilt and WBT as a reflection of her "thirst for innocence" which has not been satisfied. The characterization is a rich…
Harwood, Britton J.,and Gillian R. Overing, eds.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Although criticism on gender and class has suggested their mutual exclusion, this collection of eight essays focuses on their intersections. Three articles on Old English examine the elegies, "Judith," and the "Exeter Book," while those on Middle…
Surveys British literary responses to "some aspects of the Muslim spiritual system," identifying instances in which British literature was influenced by Sufi mysticism or reflects awareness of it. Includes summary (pp. 37-39) of parallels between…
Haselwood, Dave, trans.
San Francisco: Grabborn-Hoyem, 1967.
An art-book version of ABC, limited to 1000 copies, with facing-page Middle English text taken from the Kelmscott Chaucer and verse translation into Modern English by Dave Haselwood. The font of the Middle English text derives from "lettre batarde"…
Hasenfratz, Robert Joseph.
Dissertation Abstracts International 50 (1989): 439A-440A.
Examines the emotional exploitation of the grotesque and sensational in the light of various modern critical views. Analyzes writings from Old English homilies to Margery Kempe, including Chaucer's ClT and PhyT.
The source for SumT 2253-79 can be found in the medieval notion of the "wheel of the twelve winds," where each wind (depicted in manuscript art as a "spoke") ends in the mouth of a human face. Such a motif was associated not only with atmospheric…
