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Gray surveys "literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the earlier sixteenth century," with numerous references to Chaucer's legacy and influence during the period. Introductory chapters on intellectual and cultural history are…

Covers a wide range of concerns in Spenser criticism, with forty-two individual essays arranged under five headings: Contexts, Works, Poetic Craft, Sources and Influence, and Reception. The handbook cites Chaucer and his works recurrently, with…

Julius defines anti-Semitism and describes its history and politics in England. Literary anti-Semitism has "distinct tropes and themes, deployed without respect for genre boundaries." The "master trope" of "a well intentioned Christian place in peril…

Textbook edition of PardPT and the GP description of the Pardoner. Includes glosses and discursive notes (at the back of the book) and discussion of approaches to the text: sources and analogues, characterization, assessment of theme and topic, and…

Updateable, annotated bibliography of Chaucer studies, launched in 2010, available by subscription only. Arranges individual studies alphabetically under 23 categories (plus subsections), providing hypertext links to the original material when…

Surveys "current critical trends" in Chaucer studies, focusing on "twenty-first-century interest in interconnectedness, intersubjectivity, and cultural networks." Then discusses "Chaucer's own understanding of the construction of the self in relation…

Selections from "what is best and most representative" in English and Scottish writers from the period. Includes PF, selections from TC and CT (GP, MilPT, WBPT, FranPT, PardPT), and several shorter works (Adam, Truth, Scog, Purse). Also includes…

Facing-page edition of Rom (based on Thynne's edition) and its sources passage in the "Roman de la Rose," with the text of the latter drawn from various manuscripts that provide readings closest to Rom. Includes textual notes and an Introduction…

Reads HF as Chaucer's "vindication of poetry," even though he comically proposes to eschew it. Identifies the various echoes of classical and medieval sources in HF, particularly Virgil's "Aeneid," Ovid's "Metamorphoses," Alain de Lille's…

Studies how Chaucer's ClT may have been affected by the Italian textual tradition. The first part of the book concentrates on the Italian texts, particularly the Manelli codex of Boccaccio, "Decameron" X.10. The second part considers how the Hengwrt…

Explores the interplay between allegory as a "strategy for interpreting texts" and allegory as a "method for composing" in classical and medieval literature. Touches on HF, MerT, and PF.

Describes critical approaches to Chaucer's poetry (except CT and TC) and the crucial issues they have disclosed.

Supplements "Verses of Cadence" (1954) to reinforce arguments that Chaucer's prosody was rhythmic, not metrical, and that final -e should not be pronounced in reading Chaucer. Considers the influence on Chaucer's rhythms--in prose as well as…

Surveys the iconographical tradition of "Venus-of-the-Seashell" ("Aphrodite Anadyomene") as background to assessing why Chaucer depicts Venus carrying a citole in KnT (1.1959) and carrying a comb in HF (line 136). Explores the images in Chaucer's…

Introductory study guide to PrPT, WBPT, and the accompanying GP descriptions, focusing on the ambiguity of the Prioress and the "moral incoherence" of the Wife of Bath. Includes questions for discussion but no text of the poetry.

Examines CT within the social and political life of the later fourteenth century. Chaucer had an unusually assimilative, syncretic, and integrative imagination, but he lived at a time of disintegrating social and religious forms and values. He was…

Challenges the theory that Chaucer wrote in iambic pentameter, assessing the evidence of Chaucer manuscripts, using them to argue that the prosody of Chaucer (and that of his fifteenth-century followers) depends upon length or duration rather than…

Sees Chaucer's world in the midst of change from feudalism to mercantilism. Threats to society represented by dream visions must yet be integrated into the rational structure. The CT pilgrimage is a Peasant's Revolt in reverse. Knight takes a…

Introduces students to Chaucer's life (opening chapter), comments on critical approaches to Chaucer, and presents several groups of recurring topics in CT: gender, religion, race, and class; love, sex, and marriage; God and spirituality; adaptations…

A survey of Middle English literature, designed to accompany the author's anthology "A Book of Middle English" (with J. A. Burrow; 3rd ed., 2005). Treats six topics: the English language; manuscripts, scribes, and audiences; literature and society,…

Eleven essays on topics concerning late medieval English literature and its contexts: Signs and Symbols (Barry Windeatt), Religious Belief (Marilyn Corrie), Women and Literature (Catherine Sanok), The Past (Andrew Galloway), Production and…

Examines the use of desire in stories of romances in Dante, Chaucer, and Malory. Traces development of the medieval romance genre in later periods, including novels of J. R. R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling, and films, such as "Star Wars" and "Monty…

Collects seven essays by Everett on topics in Middle English studies, some previously published and some unpublished, plus a "Memoir" about Everett by Mary Lascelles, and a Bibliography of Everett's publications. For two previously unpublished essays…

The festschrift includes fifteen essays on medieval topics: Langland, medieval music, Gower, poetry and art, drama, punctuation, the "arbor caritatis," Thomas More, Sir John Fastolf, and articles on Chaucer and related matters. For six essays that…

A collection of essays on Chaucer; the career of Davis; "Piers Plowman;" a poem to William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester;the printing of medieval texts; Jocelin of Brakelond; ME linguistics; and clocks and dials. For six essays that pertain to…