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…
Strohm, Paul.
Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Includes thirteen New Historicist essays as examples of "practical theory," discussing how various historical and literary texts can be seen to reveal more than they say. Topics include legal proceedings, various aspects of Lollardy, John Capgrave's…
Ellis, Steve.
Minneapolis and London : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Surveys twentieth-century manifestations of Chaucer and his works outside of academe, considering the Kelmscott Chaucer and various other reflections of popular perception: occasional essays, translations, audio and visual reproductions of his life…
Desmond, Marilynn.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Surveys understandings of Dido--e.g., historical, Virgilian, Ovidian--and examines what her medieval presentations tell us about intertextual relations, gender attitudes, and the "reading positions" of various medieval authors, including Chaucer,…
Chance, Jane.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1995
Examines Chaucer's astrological and mythological allusions in light of medieval mythographic commentaries, arguing that such analysis discloses "embarrassing secrets."
Akehurst, F. R. P.,and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden, eds.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Nine essays by various authors on representation of and attitudes toward strangers in medieval literature and society. Topics include merchants as strangers, Jews in France, Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Wolfram, Renaut de Montaubon," the German poet…
Watt, Diane
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Reads John Gower's Confessio Amantis as a work that "encourages its audience to take risks in interpretation, to experiment with meaning, and to offer individualistic readings." The work pursues a "negative critique of ethical poetry" and enables…
Burger, Glenn.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
CT can destabilize essentialist categories of sexuality, subjectivity, and nationality. From a queer and postcolonial perspective, CT enables or compels neither a symbolically simple London originary nor an allegorically closed ending, but rather an…
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Bodies in medieval literature are depicted as rhizomatic, unfinished identity machines invented by texts, such as TC, CT, and others. Commentary draws on theories of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and others. Particular references to SqT, WBP,…
Federico, Sylvia.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Federico combines historicism and psychoanalysis to explore the "fascination with Troy" in late-medieval England as a "symbolic appropriation" and a means of establishing English identity. Examines the gendered representations of Troy in Gower's "Vox…
Smith D. Vance.
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Considers the household as a complex image central to understanding late-medieval England, exploring literary, historical, and economic representations for what they disclose about the "ethics of possession." Analyzes aspects of "Winner and Waster,"…
Trigg, Stephanie.
Minneapolis and Londons : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Examines critical discourses from the late Middle Ages to the late twentieth century that have constructed Chaucer for, and mediated his poetry to, subsequent readers. Trigg explores "Chaucer's status as an exemplary canonical author for English…
Barnes, Donna R., ed.
Minneapolis, Minn.: Burgess, 1971.
An anthology of readings that pertain to medieval education among various classes and institutions, with individual readings drawn from primary sources and modern analyses, and with brief sectional introductions by the editor. Among the 95 readings…
Includes sixty trans lyric poems, presented in a "transliteration of English--Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect," with spelling reminiscent of Middle English.
Hanawalt, Barbara A., ed.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.
Ten essays explore the intersection between history and literature in Chaucer's lifetime; issues of class, gender, and politics are recurrent concerns. One essay on literature and Richard II's court, two on Langland, one on medieval hunting, and one…
Lavezzo, Kathy, ed.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
An introduction by the editor and ten essays by various authors consider the presence and nature of nationalism in medieval England. Medieval scholarly tradition and political structures anticipate the nation state and the nationalist discourses of…
Lochrie, Karma.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Lochrie theorizes what sexualities, particularly female sexuality, might "have looked like before heterosexuality and the normal" were constructed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by statistical practices, exploring various medieval texts,…
Labbie, Erin Felicia.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Jacques Lacan's "methodologies follow those established by the medieval scholastic scholars who sought to determine the potential for the human subject to know and represent real universal categories"; and his seminars engage medieval discourses on…
Mitchell, J. Allan
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Studies the ontogeny (rather than ontology) of medieval western humanness, focusing on gestation, birth, childhood, and the social and cultural coming-into-being of the child. Links various aspects of "posthumanist, ecological, and materialist…
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
An extended essay in "thinking beyond anthropocentrality" by appreciating "lithic" ontology and "geophilia" ("geology without dispassion"), an example of posthumanist, object-oriented consideration that seeks to dislodge assumptions about…
Smith, D. Vance.
Minnesota Review 80 (2013): 131-44.
Argues that in PardT "allegory and form straddle the boundaries of finitude in order to raise the question of how finitude is constituted," thereby sharing or anticipating several concerns and questions raised by object-oriented, materialist…
Delany, Sheila.
Minnesota Review, New Series 5 (1975): 104-15.
The Wife of Bath turned the sexual economics of her time to her advantage. Margery Kempe could not so capitulate. Religion became her way of asserting ownership of herself.
Sauer, Michelle M., ed.
Minot, N.D.: Minot State University, 2003.
Twenty essays by various authors on topics in British literature before 1800: five essays on Shakespeare; three on medieval uses of Christ's death (in Beowulf, Song of Roland, and El Cid). Other topics include Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe,…
Using concepts derived from Roland Barthes, argues that PF is both a "text of pleasure with its reflection of courtly culture" and a "text of bliss with its unconcluded conclusion."
Addresses the engagement of medieval literature in the construction of European and Muslim identities in CT. Traces the origin and the politics behind the western construction of Muslims as "God's enemies in the Middle Ages and how this…
