Includes two reminiscences and thirty-four essays in Japanese. For the reminiscence and the six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
Matthews, David.
Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Assesses the roots and development of Middle English studies as a reflection of antiquarian and nationalistic impulses. Traces the growth of English medievalism from Bishop Thomas Percy to Frederick Furnivall and focuses on the impact of individual…
Twelve essays by various authors on identity as reflected in medieval and early modern literature and history. Topics include bastardry in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth, linguistic identity and Spanish Jews, identity in the work of Langland, the…
Mooney, Linne R.
Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 139-60.
Charts "specific astronomical references" that are datable in Chaucer's works against other known events of the poet's life. Although the references may not help us date the poems in which they occur, they do indicate Chaucer's active interest in…
Muscatine, Charles.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1999.
Fourteen previously printed pieces by Muscatine, including articles, sections of books, and reviews. The four essays that pertain to Chaucer are "The Canterbury Tales: Style of the Man and Style of the Work" (1966), "Chaucer's Religion and the…
Nugent, Christopher Gerard.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 1124A, 1999.
The sense of individual authorship and the acceptance of English as a literary language were eventually accomplished by Chaucer, who, though he sometimes assumed authority through his guise of translator, became the model for subsequent English…
Olson, Glending.
David Wallace, ed. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 566-88
Surveys Chaucer's life and art in light of their cultural contexts, commenting on his status as a court poet, the nature of his audience, his self-consciousness and uses of contemporary literary forms, his relations to his contemporaries, and his…
Palmer, R. Barton, ed.
New York : AMS Press, 1999.
Fourteen essays by various authors on French poets Machaut, Froissart, Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, Charles d'Orelans, and Villon. The essays emphasize the determining material effects of the courtly mode of production, especially the roles of the…
Green, Richard Firth.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Explores patterns in the meanings and applications of two fundamental concepts in late-medieval English tradition: truth (trouthe), which shifted from "integrity" to "conforming to fact"; and treason, which shifted from "personal betrayal" to a…
Goodman, Anthony,and James Gillespie, eds.
Oxford ;
Eleven essays by various authors and an introduction by Goodman. Topics include Richard's reign as presented in chronicles, the nature and quality of his rule, and his relations with the following: his councils, the Church, the higher nobility,…
Hanawalt, Barbara A.,and David Wallace, eds.
Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
Ten essays by various authors and an introduction by the editors. The essays focus on intersections between literary and historical texts, especially those concerned with representations of law and transgression of law. For three essays that pertain…
Hirose, Sutezo.
Hisayuki Sasamoto et al., eds. Hearts to the English-American Language and Literature: Essays Presented to Emeritus Professor Sutezo Hirose in Honour of His 88th Birthday (Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 1999), pp. iii-vi.
Holsinger, Bruce W.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21: 99-141, 1999.
Argues that the alliterative "Choristers' Lament" is "a sophisticated but hitherto unrecognized response" to Langland's Piers Plowman. Details of the sketch of the Sergeant at Law in GP and the use of "rote" in PrT may indicate that Chaucer conceived…
Explores how Dafydd's "connections, and the lack of them, with Chaucer . . . illuminate the English author." The poets share modal and conceptual similarities, but they differ in style and genre. Chaucer is less a poet of nature than is Dafydd and…
Twenty essays by various authors, plus a forward (pp. 13-25) by Lester that describes the career and lists the publications of Norman Blake. The essays consider Middle English language, literature, editing, and publishing, with eleven essays…
Lochrie, Karma.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Explores the implications of secrecy represented in several topics and depicted in medieval texts: confession in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, gossip in WBPT and HF, occulted science in Pseudo-Aristotle's Secret of Secrets and Pseudo-Albert's The…
Carter, Ronnie D, and David G. Bailey.
Chaucer Review 34: 236-41, 1999.
Polish academic writing on Chaucer follows a political pattern. Retreating from politically charged topics, students and professors have concentrated on linguistics topics, such as morphology, syntax, semantics, and loanwords. Most "literary"…
Collette, Carolyn P.
Chaucer Review 33: 350-62, 1999.
Although Chaucer's "circle" has generally been considered wholly masculine, it may well have included contemporary women such as Joan of Kent. Joan was a prosperous and powerful woman, an interceder and a mediator: a model for a character such as…
Dalton, John Paul.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60: 121A, 1999.
In his love visions, Chaucer initially claims to be stupefied by love and love poetry. Dalton analyzes this topos-deriving from many sources, including Boethius, the Roman de la Rose, and poems of Machaut-in BD, HF, PF, and TC.
Summarizes experiences and experiments in teaching Chaucer in several venues, noting how Chaucer's language and humor seem to transcend cross-cultural boundaries.
Foster, Edward E.
Lewiston : N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.
Chaucer's fictions are opaque and self-conscious. Neither ordinary ironist nor allegorist, Chaucer is a nominalist "philosophical poet" for whom "divine truth is stable; human knowledge is provisional; and fiction is the means by which nominalist…
Although only seventy years separated Dante's and Chaucer's creative peaks, different philosophies affected their attempts to communicate divine truth through poetry. Reflecting Augustinian philosophy, Dante believed that all things divine could be…
Ganim, John M.
William A. Quinn, ed. Chaucer's Dream Visions and Shorter Poems (New York and London: Garland, 1999), pp. 463-76.
Assesses criticism of Chaucer's dream visions and lyrics for how it has "predicted" the present state of Chaucer scholarship and as a "test case" for various critical approaches. Issues include the subject and subjectivity; resistance to new critical…
Aers, David.
Peter Brown, ed. Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 84-98.
Unlike the dream interpretations in the works of Freud and Milton, dreams in Chaucer's poems reveal the strategies of power and gender that shape the interpretation of dreams. Discusses WBP, NPT, and TC.
Astell, Ann W.
Ithaca, N.Y., and London : Cornell University Press, 1999.
A series of studies that explore how William Langland, John Gower, the Gawain poet, Chaucer, and Sir Thomas Malory all "practiced an allegorical art, partly as a result of their similar educational backgrounds and also because political pressures…
