Raises questions about what it means to be modern in one own's time and about polyphony (including polyphonic music, polyvocality, and literary dialogism) as an index to modernity, collecting fourteen essays on relevant topics, most of them on…
Anthologizes seventeen essays by Knight, "written over several decades focused on the social and political contexts of medieval literature," three previously unpublished, one of which pertains to Chaucer: Chapter 14, "Chaucer's Fabliaux and Late…
Investigates Anne of Bohemia as a figure of queenship--socially, politically, and economically-- along the way questioning arguments for claims that she was Chaucer's patron (often grounded in LGWP), treating them as probabilities rather than facts.…
Radulescu, Raluca, and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, eds.
New York: Routledge, 2022.
Thirty-seven essays by various authors on the forms, borders, networks, writers, and texts of medieval English, along with modern critical approaches, with an introduction by the editors (on "Trans-European and Global Contexts"), a timeline, and…
Pavlinich, Elan Justice.
New York: Routledge, 2023.
Explores how various texts of medievalism (graphic novels, retellings, rap music, performance art, etc.) "represent radical, nontraditional sex acts enjoyed by people who are typically excluded from both popular culture and medieval narratives" and…
Includes (vol. 2, pp. 1030-31) a summary of the plot and main characters of TC, categorizing it as a "Chivalric romance," and praising it as an "almost perfectly constructed narrative poem" with "effective depiction of character" that "forecast[s]…
Marxist rather than feminist, the book of ten essays holds that oppression of women results not merely from male dominance but from economic exploitation. The successful heroine Jehane in the thirteenth-century Franco-Flemish "Flore et Jehane" is…
Freedman, Morris, ed.
Davis, Paul B. ed.
New York: Scribner, 1968.
An introduction to the study of literature for classroom use, arranged by literary mode and focused thematically on social, religious, and literary controversies. Includes a section titled "Medieval and Modern Chaucer" (pp. 457-81) that raises…
Clark, Marden J., and Soren F. Cox.
New York: Scribner, 1970.
Item not seen. WorldCat records indicate that this is a textbook for college composition, with samples from literature, rhetoric, and theory for discussion; includes Chaucer's "The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe" in a section on English language history.
A basketball exposé and coming-of-age novel about a basketball player, Elliott Hersch, and his struggles to find a true life and game, guided by Chaucer's aphorism in FranT, 1479: "Trouthe is the hyeste thyng that man may kepe."
Describes Chaucer's life and works in a brief subsection of chapter two (pp. 47-56), offering appreciative commentary that characterizes the poet as one who "loved life," despite awareness of the "faults, sins, crimes, follies, and vanities of…
Untermeyer, Louis.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.
Surveys major British and American writers from Chaucer to Dylan Thomas. Praises Chaucer for his lively characterizations and his "variety and vitality" of narration, with particular attention to CT, but including commentary on the poet's life and…
A young-adult novel, modeled on CT, in which senior high school students on a bus trip from Canterbury, Connecticut to Washington, D.C. share stories about their awakening sexuality. Characters' names (including the primary narrator, Jeff Chaucer)…
Lovesey, Peter.
New York: Soho Crime; London: Sphere, 2014.
A detective mystery in which a stone-tablet illustration of the Wife of Bath provokes the killing of a Chaucer professor during an auction. The story includes a putative portrait of Chaucer and surmises about his life.
Gardiner, Patrick, and Miriam Jacobson.
New York: Spark, 2002.
Study guide to CT, with emphasis on plot, character, theme, and motif, particularly in GP, KnT, MilPT, WBPT, PardPT, and NPPT. Includes summaries, commentary on quotations, suggested essay topics, and review materials.
Facing-page translation of selections from CT into informal, colloquial modern prose. A brief introduction characterizes the pilgrims and the characters in selected tales; selections include GP, KnT, MilT, WBPT, PardPT, Th, and NPT.
Includes discussion of FranT (pp. 282–93), tabulating historical astronomical data and arguing that Chaucer "used the configuration of the Sun and Moon in December 1340 as the inspiration for the time of year [late December] and for the central…
A popular history of the George Inn, Southwark, located next to where the Tabard once stood. Includes various references to the Tabard Inn in history and in CT, and includes a chapter called "The Poet's Tale, Or, How English Literature Was Born in a…
Knight, Stephen.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
In an effort to "historicize" Arthurian legend, Knight discusses the societies that "produced and consumed" various Arthurian works. Does not discuss works by Chaucer.
Scattergood, V. J., and J. W. Sherborne, eds.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Ten essays on court culture in Chaucer's England. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages under Alternative Title.
Lucas, Angela M.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
This book surveys the status, activities, and contributions of medieval women in such medieval documents as wills and charters; in treatises on theological, philosophical, and medical topics; in devotional literature such as sermons and homilies; and…
