Garbaty, Thomas J.
Chaucer Newsletter 14:1 (1992): 2, 7.
Even though the Hainault Forest in Essex derives from Old English "hyneholt" ("monastic forest"), owned by the Benedictine abbey of Barking, Chaucer's many connections with Flemish Hainault are evident even here since John of Gaunt contributed to the…
Surveys the sixteen extant manuscripts of TC, dividing them into four subgroups and commenting on their dates and relationships. Describes each manuscript, giving information on codexes, collations, scribal hands, corrections, marginalia,…
Schembri, A. M.
Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies 2 (1992): 1-35.
Influenced by Dante, Chaucer's TC represents the "dramatic interplay" of three kinds of love: "the courtly, the natural, [and] the rational." Chaucer departs from his sources, however, adapting the love of Troilus and Criseyde to an English,…
Compares depictions of Chaucer-the-pilgrim, the Knight, the Squire, the Monk, the Shipman, and the Reeve by the anonymous illustrator of John Urry's 1721 edition of Chaucer's "Works" and by James Jeffreys. The comparison reveals that "readers in…
Cheney, Liana De Girolami, ed.
Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992.
This illustrated collection of twelve essays on Pre-Raphaelite art and literature and their medieval heritage includes an introduction by the editor and a bibliography. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Pre-Raphaelitism and…
DeVries, David N.
Studies in Scottish Literature 27 (1992): 113-27.
The major interpretations of Dunbar's poem fall into two groups: those arguing the poem is representational and those arguing it is reflexive. Comparing "Golden Targe" to Chaucer's dream poetry and to other dream poetry by Dunbar reveals that both…
Skelton's "Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge" mixes "Chaucerian and Langlandian forms," capitalizing on their presentations of female sexuality and economic value. Skelton's Elynour is neither a personification (like Lady Mede) nor realistic (like the…
Miliaras, Barbara.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, ed. Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 127-57.
Burne-Jones's use of the grotesque was influenced by Chaucer, among others. In KnT, Emelye unwittingly inspires destructive passion in Palamon and Arcite, creating disorder in society and leading to a "grotesque denouement."
Miliaras, Barbara.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, ed. Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 193-218.
Surveys the influence of courtly love on Burne-Jones, arguing for the special influence of Chaucer. LGW and love poetry inspired early Burne-Jones; his painting "Laus Veneris" is linked to MercB. The lady in "An Idyl" suggests Emelye of KnT. Like…
Sanders, Arnold A.
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. 196-215.
Examines Gower's tale of Canace, the Man of Law's reference to the account, and the narrative treatment of the character Canace in SqT, arguing that Spenser fused them in his Canace. In his second (1596) edition of "The Faerie Queene" Spenser…
Argues that "the original Old English concessive conjunction 'peah' transformed into Middle English 'theigh,' survived much longer than is admitted in standard Middle English reference books."
Aers, David.
John Simons, ed. From Medieval to Medievalism (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), pp. 29-40.
Condemns the application of deconstructive criticism to medieval literature, critiquing, by way of example, the claim that Chaucer is a deconstructionist in Marshall Leicester, "Oure Tonges Difference: Textuality and Deconstructive in Chaucer"…
Allen, David G., and Robert A. White, eds.
London and Toronto: University of Delaware Press; Newark: Associated University Presses, 1992.
Nineteen essays on the continuities and discontinuities of medieval and Renaissance literature. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Work of Dissimilitude under Alternative Title.
Ashbrook, Susan.
Liana De Girolami Cheney, ed. Pre-Raphaelitism and Medievalism in the Arts. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1992), pp. 281-305.
William Morris reissued many of Caxton's medieval texts, and his love for beautiful books led to his Kelmscott Chaucer, described by Edward Burne-Jones as "a pocket cathedral."
Boyer, Robert H.
Michael B. Lukens, ed. Conflict and Community: New Studies in Thomistic Thought (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 103-24.
Argues that Thomas Aquinas was a "direct and major source for Chaucer's philosophy," demonstrates the availability of Thomas's work to Chaucer via Merton College, and explores the similiarities between their views of virtue and of the…
Goodman, Anthony.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Historical biography that emphasizes John of Gaunt's reverence for royal authority and his consistent service to the English Crown. Unlike many magnates, Gaunt pursued personal ambitions within a royalist ideology, foreshadowing Tudor ideals of…
Lehmann, Elmar, and Bernd Lenz, eds.
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B. B. Gruner, 1992.
A festschrift with nineteen essays focusing on telling stories, a theme that plays an important role in the work of Ulrich Broich. The subjects range from England to Japan, from Chaucer to Joyce, from genre to gender. For two essays that pertain to…
Leon Sendra, Antonio (R.), and Jesus Serrano Reyes.
SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 2 (1992): 106-41.
Tabulates Chaucer's allusions to Spanish people and places; explores ways to account for these political, social, and cultural references and what they can tell us about medieval Spanish/English relations.
Bowden, Betsy.
Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship 9 (1992): 10-29.
Compares the treatment of proverbs in three eighteenth-century modernizations of MilT, assessing shifts in form, shifts in emphasis, and sensitivity to Chaucer's original. Considers how proverbs may "function as microcosms" of reader response and…
Diller, Hans-Jurgen.
Elmar Lehmann and Bernd Lenz, eds. Telling Stories: Studies in Honour of Ulrich Broich on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B. B. Gruner, 1992), pp.1-16.
By confining his version almost entirely to observable details, Chaucer achieves more in MilT than do writers of analogous stories. He does not interpose his narrator between the reader and the narrated events, and he spares the reader the glib…
The "presentational features" of MS HM 140 (prose format, absence of ClP, reduction of multivoiced discourse) transform its "mode of signification from performance to textuality," suggesting history and truth. This presentation radically alters the…
Saycell, Kenneth J.
Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe/Italian Studies in Southern Africa 5 (1992): 79-102.
Discusses the progressive changes in versions of the Griselda story from Boccaccio's "Decameron" to ClT. Chaucer's poetic version, the culmination of these changes, reveals many of the problems in the original story.
Erzgräber, Willi.
Elmar Lehmann and Bernd Lenz, eds. Telling Stories: Studies in Honour of Ulrich Broich on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: B. B. Gruner, 1992), pp.188-204.
In HF, Chaucer reflects on the literary tradition he follows and on the written and oral materials available to him. James Joyce does the same in his novels, although he was not directly influenced by Chaucer. Each connects with the literary…
Vasta, Edward.
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. 35-47.
Contrasts the narrators of BD and HF and their attitudes toward experience and bookish authority, clarifying how the HF narrator is "rendered completely and comprehensively skeptical." Yet, the lack of an ending to HF encourages readers to transcend…
Chaucer's strategy in LGW and Christine de Pisan's in "Livre de la Cite des Dames" differ from Boccaccio's in "De claris mulieribus." Chaucer's parody of hagiography and Christine's efforts to encourage us to read as women promote a revisionist…
