Alexander, Michael.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
A narrative introduction to English literature from Old English to postmodernism, designed for the general reader. The discussion of Chaucer (pp. 55-62) emphasizes biography, PF, TC, and the ironies of CT.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Fourteen essays by various authors and an introduction by Cohen, using and critiquing postcolonial theory in discussing medieval texts. Topics include the idea of the Orient; notions of time (temporalities) in postcolonial studies; Christian…
Knapp, Peggy A.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
The words Corage/Courage, Estat/Estate, Fre/Free, Gloss, Kynde/Kind, Lewid/Lewd, Providence, Queynt/Quaint, Sely/Silly, Thrift, and Virtu/Virtue are time-bound. Like all other language, they are bound to and bounded by the social formation in which…
Originally published in 1988. Designed for examination preparation, this guide poses a series of issues for GP and the individual tales in CT; TC; and the dream poems, especially PF: kind of work, what it is about, characterization, the argument,…
Weisl, Angela Jane, and Anthony Joseph Cunder.
New York :Routledge, 2018.
Introduces western medieval literature and latter-day medievalism, focusing on multiple modes and genres and selected authors (Dante, Boccaccio, the "Gawain"-poet, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Sir Thomas Malory). Designed for classroom use, seeks…
Robertson, Elizabeth, and Christine M. Rose, eds.
New York and Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001.
Eleven essays about literary depictions of rape in Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Latin comedies, Ovidian narratives, and the Philomel story. Includes an introduction by the editors, an afterword by Christopher Cannon, and a revised reprint…
Rust, Martha Dana.
New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Explores relationships between texts and their paratexts in English and Scottish books produced between 1400 and 1490, considering a "variety of pre- and extralinguistic modes of interacting with and thinking through books." Examines letter-forms,…
Ashton, Gail, and Louise Sylvester, eds.
New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Nine essays on pedagogical topics by various authors, with web resources, suggestions for further reading, and index. The introduction (by Ashton) emphasizes the need for teachers to facilitate active learning. For individual essays, search for…
Solopova, Elizabeth, and Stuart D. Lee.
New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Describes "key themes, texts, terminologies and methods" related to medieval English literature, divided into four sections: (1) Introductory Key Concepts; (2) Old English; (3) Middle English; and (4) Approaches, Theory and Practice. Recurrent…
Weiss, Alexander.
New York and Berne: Peter Lang, 1985.
Treats alliteration, enjambment, repetition, oral style, etc.,to demonstrate that Chaucer's poetry represents "not so much...the beginning of a new tradition...as the culmination of a native poetic tradition," especially as found in early Middle…
Gillmeister, Heiner.
New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1984.
Identification of the source, 1 Samuel 6, of "Truth, a "poeme a clef," leads to the question of how allegorical interpretations of a medieval exegete could impinge on the poet's life and work. Emphasizing medieval name lore (onomastics), the author…
Foster, Michael.
New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008.
Foster revisits the question of Chaucer's narrator as a fictional construct, gauging responses that the verisimilitude of Chaucer's narrative might have invited in a contemporary audience. In WBP, Jankyn's actions as a reader comment on Chaucer's…
Amtower, Laurel.
New York and Houndsmill, Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2000.
Analyzes depictions of reading in books of hours and assesses the theme of reading in Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan, examining a new "reflexive relationship" between "reading habits and the shaping of identity" in the late Middle…
Salisbury, Joyce E.
New York and London : Garland, 1990.
Interdisciplinary (covering religion, medicine, history, literature, and philosophy from early Christian times through the late Middle Ages), this annotated and indexed guide to medieval sexuality and attitudes toward sex and the body contains…
Quinn, William A., ed.
New York and London : Garland, 1999.
Sixteen essays by various authors on BD, HF, PF, LGW, and the short poems. Fifteen are reprints or excerpts from longer works published between 1948 and 1994. Includes a brief introduction to each of the poems (and the section on the short poems), a…
Knapp, Peggy (A.)
New York and London : Routledge, 1990.
Influenced by modern critical approaches such as new historicism and cultural studies, Knapp reworks some material published earlier and adds new essays in a volume designed to examine the pilgrims' social contest and the "larger social contest"…
Benoit-Dusausoy, Annick, and Guy Fontaine, ed. Trans. Michael Wooff.
New York and London : Routledge, 2000.
Comprehensive survey of European literatures, writers, genres, motifs, and themes, from Homer to contemporary figures and trends. J. Smith, "Chaucer (c.1340-c.1400)," pp. 142-46, describes Chaucer and his works, discussing him as a humanist and a man…
Gaylord, Alan T., ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2001.
Prints fourteen pieces, ranging historically from Thomas Tyrwhitt and George Saintsbury to recent commentary, including new essays by Richard Osberg, Emerson Brown, and Winthrop Wetherbee. Includes an introduction that summarizes the contributions…
Hewett-Smith, Kathleen M., ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2001.
Ten essays on Piers Plowman, including three that pertain to Chaucer. For essays pertaining to Chaucer, search for William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays under Alternative Title.
Delany, Sheila, ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2002.
Fourteen essays by various authors who study Jews as an absent presence in medieval England, considering fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts for their literary, historical, theological, and visual representations of Jews. Some essays reprinted.…
Kline, Daniel T., ed.
New York and London : Routledge, 2003.
Sixteen essays by various authors, most of them addressing individual texts as literature written for children--for example, "The Babees Book," "Sir Gowther," Aelfric's "Colloquy," and selections from the "Gesta Romanorum" and from Gower's "Confessio…
