The section on Chaucer (pp. 5-28) includes a biographical introduction, a reader's guide to CT, brief summaries of PF and TC, and discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which Chaucer wrote.
Robertson, D. W. Jr., ed.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
An anthology of literature produced in Britain and Ireland in the Middle Ages: Celtic, Latin, Old English, French, and Middle English. The section pertaining to Chaucer (pp. 467-569) includes introductions to Chaucer's life and language, along with…
An anthology of supernatural fiction with selections from the classical period to the modern; includes (pp. 132-33) a modernized selection from NPT (7.3000-49) as an example of a ghost story.
An illustrated encyclopedia of western cultures in the 14th-16th centuries that includes brief comments on "The Social Realism of Chaucer" in CT, with three accompanying passages in modern prose: the opening of the GP (1.1-41) the description of the…
Gibaldi, Joseph, ed.
New York: Modern Language Associaiton, 1980.
A collection of pedagogical articles from diverse perspectives--general overviews and approaches as well as specific approaches--by well-known Chaucerians, including John Fisher, Emerson Brown, Robert M. Jordan, William Provost, and Thomas W. Ross.
Travis, Peter W., and Frank Grady, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2014.
Second edition of 1980 volume, "Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,'" providing articles on pedagogical approaches to teaching CT and including updated section, "The Canterbury Tales in the Digital Age." Sections offer strategies for…
Yeager, R. F., and Brian W. Gastle, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.
Discusses Gower's influence on other Middle English writers and provides recommendations for teaching Gower, from community college to graduate programs. Includes several essays specific to Gower's relationship to Chaucer. Includes bibliography…
Yeager, R. F., and Brian W. Gastle, eds.
New York: Modern Language Association, 2011.
Twenty-five pedagogical essays by various authors, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower under Alternative Title.
Raffel, Burton, trans.
New York: Modern Library, 2008.
Modern English translation of CT (based on Robinson's second edition), following Chaucer's prose and pentameter and modernizing his syntax. Raffel relies on off-rhymes, slant-rhymes, and blank verse to approximate Chaucer's couplets and other verse…
Summarizes CT in "outline form," divided into units (following the Ellesmere order) and interspersed with brief interpretive comments on background, genre, plot, and characters. Opens with a General Introduction to backgrounds and Chaucer's Life;…
Fitzmaurice, Susan M., and Donka Minkova, eds.
New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
Nineteen studies, including position papers, responses, and counter responses. A set of exchanges pertains to Chaucer: In "Metrical Evidence: Did Chaucer Translate The Romaunt of the Rose'?" (pp. 155-79), Xingzhong Li affirms on metrical grounds that…
Thirty vignettes of London and its citizens arranged chronologically, with nine recommended walking tours and an Index. Chapter 7, "Geoffrey Chaucer is Appointed Comptroller of the Port of London: 8 June, 1374" (pp. 46-51; 4 figs.), briefly describes…
Howard, Donald R., and James Dean, eds.
New York: New American Library, 1976.
An edition of TC, accompanied by Adam, Ven, Ros, Wom Unc, MercB, Wom Nob, and Scog, an Introduction, textual notes, explanatory notes at the bottom of the page, and a brief glossary at the end of the volume. The Introduction (vi-lvi) includes…
Pound, Ezra, and Marcella Spann, eds.
New York: New Directions, 1964.
Includes selections from GP (1-27, 118-26 and 150-62 [Prioress], 165-66 and 177-87 [Monk], 270-75 [Merchant], and 309-22 [Sergeant at Law]), MerB, and the "Roundel" from PF. In Middle English, without notes or glosses.
Eighty-four brief poems or excerpts from longer ones, including lines 36-56 of SNP in Middle English (pp. 68-69), with indication of Chaucer's debt to Dante, whose version of "St. Bernard's Hymn to the Virgin" is given in Italian and English…
Borges, Jorge Luis.
New York: New Directions, 2013.
Based on student transcriptions of Borges' 1966 lectures. Chapters are divided into chronological class sessions; lecture topics begin with the fifth century and conclude with nineteenth-century writers. Describes the history of the English language…
Prose, Francine.
New York: New York Public Library; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Surveys understandings of and attitudes toward gluttony (especially drunkenness and overeating) from Church fathers to M. F. K. Fisher in theology, literature, art, and popular culture, including a summary of PardT (pp. 15-19).
Fisher, John H.
New York: New York University Press, 1964.
Describes the development of John Gower's critical reputation, his life records, his literary career (including attention to manuscripts, sequence of composition, and revisions), the major social and political themes of his works, and his…
Bessinger, Jess B., Jr., and Robert P. Creed, eds.
New York: New York University Press, 1965.
Includes 26 essays on Germanic, Old English, Middle English, and Renaissance literary and linguistic topics, along with a dedicatory poem, a brief Introduction, and a list of Magoun's publications between 1924 and 1964, including reviews. For two…
Bessinger, Jess B., Jr., and Robert R. Raymo, eds.
New York: New York University Press, 1976.
Fifteen essays by various authors, commemmorating Hornstein's retirement. For four essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Medieval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein under Alternative Title.
Clements, Robert J., and Joseph Gibaldi.
New York: New York University Press, 1977.
Describes the development of the Renaissance novella, particularly the fourteenth-to-seventeenth century traditions in Italy, France, Spain, and England. Deeply influenced by the model of Boccaccio's "Decameron," the genre is distinct from the later…
Al-Hariri of Basra.
Cooperson, Michael, trans.
New York: New York University Press, 2020.
Translates al-Harırı's Arabic classic "Maqamat," with sections imitating
or emulating the styles of various writers in English (Mark Twain, Virginia
Woolf, John Lyly, etc.). The "Author's Retraction" is "modeled on" Ret.
