Sidhu, Nicole Nolan.
Literature Compass 6 (2009): 864-85.
Sidhu surveys recent attention to gender in medieval studies and assesses the "continuing marginalization" of gender studies. Recurrent references to Chaucer studies.
Davis, Isabel.
Literature Compass 6.4 (2009): 842-63.
Surveys uses of first-person narrative in late medieval English literary texts, agreeing with and extending earlier critics' arguments that find in this literature notions of selfhood often attributed to the early modern period. Observes how and…
Marshall, Helen, and Peter Buchanan.
Literature Compass 8 (2011): 164-72.
Explores intersections between the "new formalism" and the close study of the formal features of late-medieval manuscripts, surveying recent scholarship and focusing on analyses of Chaucer's Adam and the scribe Adam Pinkhurst. These analyses…
Horobin, Simon.
Literature Compass 8 (2011): 258-65.
"Reviews work on Chaucer's language and its importance for the development of English literary language." Also suggests directions for future language studies.
Williams, Deanne.
Literature Compass 8 (2011): 390-403.
Assesses the idea of Renaissance "medievalism," and reviews recent studies of the topic, focusing on Shakespeare and arguing that FranT is a "key source" of Cymbeline, which "resists the traditional borders and boundaries of periodization."
Mead, Jenna.
Literature Compasss 3.5 (2006): 973-91.
Surveys critical responses to Astr, highlighting recent discussions that emphasize patterns of readership, pedagogical strategies, and the status of science in late fourteenth-century England.
Collins, Arthur.
Literature in North Queensland 8.1 (1980): 7-13.
Verse dialogue in iambic pentameter couplets in which the Wife of Bath recommends to a convalescent Chaucer the idea of writing CT and offers to tend him while he writes.
Frost, Cheryl.
Literature in North Queensland, Australia (James Cook University, North Queensland) 5.1 (1976): 37-45.
Jungian psychological analysis of the character of January, arguing that he shows the characteristics of the introverted type--capacity for abstraction, extreme subjectivity, and a resultant poor grasp of the outside world. January has trouble…
Curtis, Carl C. III.
Literature/Film Quarterly 36.1 (2008): 68-77.
Curtis summarizes the 1944 movie "A Canterbury Tale," gauging its successes and failures and commenting on the extent to which its sensibilities might be called "Chaucerian."
Pasolini in his "Canterbury Tales" identifies himself as Chaucer because his central concern is relationship of artist to art, focusing on sexuality and morality. The Merchant's Tale and Wife's Prologue show respectability cloaking lust; the Friar's…
Erzgräber, Willi.
Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch im Auftrage der Gorres-Gesellschaft 36 (1995): 27-46.
Although securely grounded in medieval moral and theological conventions, Chaucer anticipates modernist concepts of literature, as is evident in his individualism and psychological realism, his ironic crossings of medieval narrative and philosophical…
Describes the rich Bohemian culture that Anne brought with her to England in 1381 and suggests various ways Chaucer may have been influenced by the connection with Bohemia. In the original version of LGWP, references to Anne indicate the extent to…
Stokes compares the pledges of love-troth in the "Prose Lancelot" and TC, suggesting that they reflect a "specific kind of romantic relationship," neither marital nor illicit nor clandestine, but "solemn and binding" and based on the man's service to…
Explores the etymology and pronunciations of "Lithuania" in English, including an explanation of why Chaucer renders it "Lettow" in the GP description of the Knight (CT 1.54).
Cayley, Emma, and Susan Powell, eds.
Liverpool, Liverpool niversity Press, 2013.
Foreward by Derek Pearsall. Essays address issues of packaging, presentation, and consumption of manuscripts. Also discusses producers, owners, and readers of manuscripts and early printed books. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for…
Langdell, Sebastian J.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Focuses on Hoccleve's engagement "with contemporary religious reform movements and religious debate," arguing that he was interested in the "spiritual health of English society" rather than "earthly fame," and exploring how Hoccleve invented Chaucer…
Martin, Joanna M., ed.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Edits thirty-four poems from Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6--those found in no other manuscript--with texts, notes, glossary, and bibliography. The introduction includes discussion of language and scribes, and commentary on the poems' place…
Robinson, Peter.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Explores the "metaphors, paradoxes, contradictions, and mysteries which link" poetry and money, including description of Purse among examples of fourteenth-to-twentieth-century poetry "in which money is the theme and its absence the concern."
