Keil, Aphrodite M.
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.12 (2010): n.p.
Discusses dream visions (including HF and "Pearl") and dramas of the period to explore ideas of a "feminized" Christ in the medieval period, ultimately contending that any such feminization is problematic and "no simple affirmation of female bodies…
Katz, Stephen Andrew.
Dissertation Abstracts International A71.05 (2010): n.p.
Examines Chaucer's declarations of "entente" and their uses in his works, concluding that Chaucer's deployment of the term compels the reader to interpret the texts as "intentional acts"--rather than an arrangement of "exemplary narratives"--thereby…
Justice, Steven.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 199-214.
Justice explores "historicism's liabilities" and their consequences for the prospects of an aesthetic "turn." Traces the interactions between historicism and "theory" in debunking formalism and comments on this process in medieval studies,…
Jeffrey, David Lyle.
Christianity and Literature 59 (2010): 515-30.
Chrétien's "Erec and Enide" does not celebrate courtly love but provides a "model for rightly ordered desire." Chaucer highlights the "social and spiritual value" of marriage in CT, PF, TC, and various lyrics. Henry VIII's own theatrics, however,…
Imahayashi, Osamu, Nakao Yoshiyuki, and Michiko Ogura, eds.
New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
Twenty-eight essays by various authors. For six essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
Pearsall, Derek.
Jane Tolmie and M. J. Toswell, eds. Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010), pp. 299-306.
Summary commentary on the collection of essays, with remarks on maternal grief in PrT, ClT, MLT, and other works, especially Lydgate's "A Lamentacioun of Our Lady Maria."
Pearman, Tory Vandeventer.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Theorizes how medieval medical and social discourses link the "categories of 'woman' and 'disabled,'" a linking anchored in the notion that women are defective men. Compares the notion of reproduction in MerT and "Dame Sirith"; punishment of women in…
Pearman, Tory Vandeventer.
Dissertation Abstracts International A70.07 (2010): n.p.
Arguing that medieval thought links disability with the feminine, Pearman examines "medieval female disability" in works of Chaucer (WBPT, MerT), Marie de France, Henryson, and Margery Kempe, among others.
Patterson, Lee.
Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
Ten essays by Patterson on historical criticism, teaching medieval studies, Clanvowe, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Chaucer, Saint Francis, etc.; nine of the ten essays are reprinted. For the one essay published here for the first time that pertains to Chaucer,…
Advocates the use of translation and translation exercises in teaching Chaucer's works in surveys of British literature. Criticizes major anthologies for promoting original-language study only and offers a syllabus, description of in-class…
O'Neill, Michael, ed.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Fifty-three individual essays by various authors on topics ranging from Old English poetry to various movements, individual poets, and postmodern concerns. Arranged chronologically, with a cumulative bibliography and an index. For three essays that…
Michelson, Bruce.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 773-80.
Explores the intensity of America's involvement in the Chaucer Society discussed by Matthews in "Chaucer's American Accent," focusing on the rise of British national tourism and the Gothic Revival, as well as on American romantic notions of…
Matthews, David.
American Literary History 22 (2010): 758-72.
Matthews considers ways of distinguishing between "medieval studies" and "medievalism" (relating the latter to "antimodernism") and assesses how late nineteenth-century American study of Chaucer "problematizes" the terms. The article contrasts…
Tambling, Jeremy.
London and New York: Routledge, 2010.
Examines allegory as a mode in English and American literature (and art), surveying its roots in classical and medieval traditions, exploring its relations with other literary devices and forms (irony, personification, apostrophe, prosopopoeia,…
Scase, Wendy.
Michael O'Neill, ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 43-62.
Scase summarizes the Latin, French, and English traditions of poetry in late medieval England, describing how major poets of the era engaged these traditions and created a new legacy. Chaucer engaged tradition by posing as an "inadequate" poet, by…
Saunders, Corrine J.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010.
Saunders studies medieval understandings of "magic, enchantment, the demonic, marvel and miracle." Surveys these topics in biblical and classical precedents, focuses on a range of romances in Middle English, and provides an epilogue that looks toward…
Thirty-four essays by various authors, with an introduction and an epilogue by the editor, all on topics pertaining to English poetry from its origins through the fifteenth century. Each essay includes suggestions for further reading, and the volume…
Sauer, Michelle M.
New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010.
Pedagogical introduction to Chaucer's works, presented as advice for writing college-level essays (written by Sauer with Laurie A. Sterling, with a sample essay on male physiognomy in GP by Timothy Richards) and writing about Chaucer more…
A collection of essays by various authors on the cultural history of Canterbury. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Canterbury: A Medieval City under Alternative Title.
Rentz, Ellen K.
Dissertation Abstracts International A71.02 (2010): n.p.
Considers writers such as Chaucer, Robert Mannyng, John Mirk, and, most extensively, William Langland in examining the medieval understanding of the parish and its associated individuals and phenomena. As a traditional center of religious practice,…
Phillips, Helen.
Rosalind Field, Phillipa Hardman, and Michelle Sweeney, eds. Christianity and Romance in Medieval England. Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching and Research (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 3-25.
Surveys the treatment of classical material in medieval romances (arranged by topic), exploring where and how the romance authors engage the status and validity of their pre-Christian material. Comments on KnT and TC.
Phillips, Helen.
Dee Dyas, ed. The English Parish Church Through the Centuries: Daily Life and Spirituality, Art and Architecture, Literature and Music. York: University of York; Nottingham: St. John's College, 2010, n.p. [Interactive CD]
Describes key clerical figures in CT and exemplifies details of worship, parish social life, and the Church in daily life. Includes color illustrations and hypertext links to key terms and concepts.
Perkins, Nicholas.
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 68-89.
Explores how the affiliation of bureaucracy and writing developed in England, plus the impact of the association on notions of authority. Mentions several petitions and warrants pertaining to Chaucer and comments on Purse and Pity as petitions.
