Rosenfeld, Jessica.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Examines pleasure, happiness, and enjoyment in late-medieval literature as it was influenced by Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," mediated by commentaries and the "Roman de la Rose." Considers a balance of intellectualism and voluntarism, and an…
Honeyman, Chelsea Victoria.
DAI A71.12 (2011): n.p.
Discusses Scottish poets' uses of Chaucer, both to deepen their own works and to establish their own independent literary tradition. Instances include "Kingis Quair," which incorporates motifs from TC and KnT; Henryson's work; and Gavin Douglas's…
The poem's use of "rare variants" such as "peregal," which appears in Chaucer's TC (5.840) and in Lydgate's "Reson and Sensuallyte" (ll. 1738, 4384), exemplifies its "rather refined" language.
The successive deaths between 1810 and 1816 of several men associated with Thomas Strothard's "Canterbury Pilgrims" painting would seem to have executed a certain poetic justice, for Blake had dubbed himself "Death" in one Notebook poem and, in…
Williams, Deanne.
Literature Compass 8 (2011): 390-403.
Assesses the idea of Renaissance "medievalism," and reviews recent studies of the topic, focusing on Shakespeare and arguing that FranT is a "key source" of Cymbeline, which "resists the traditional borders and boundaries of periodization."
Yim, Sung-kyun.
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 19.2 (2011): 165-86.
Explores Edmund Spenser's adaptation of SqT in Book 4 of his "Faerie Queene," focusing on how he develops a theme of friendship. Spenser claims Chaucer as source, but it seems neither that he "completes" SqT nor focuses on the Cambel/Canacee plot. In…
Horobin, Simon.
Literature Compass 8 (2011): 258-65.
"Reviews work on Chaucer's language and its importance for the development of English literary language." Also suggests directions for future language studies.
The varying senses of "lewed" in Chaucer's works point out the myopia of the received view of the word's history as an easy progression from "lay" to "lascivious."
McMahon, Patrick J., and Allen J. Frantzen.
Essays in Medieval Studies 27 (2011): 133-47.
Explores some possible uses for newly developed digital technologies in the teaching of CT, presenting the data for "and," Chaucer's most used word, suggesting the types of questions that might arise from word count and word usage data. This data can…
Beattie, Cordelia, and Kirsten A. Fenton, eds.
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Collection of case studies exploring ways in which medieval gender intersected with other categories of difference, including religion and ethnicity. For an essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for Juliette Dor, "Chaucer's Viragos: A Postcolonial…
Dor, Juliette.
Cordelia Beattie and Kirsten A. Fenton, eds. Intersections of Gender, Religion and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp. 158-82.
Considers three of the CT that contain 'virago' figures and focus on an encounter between East and West at the heart of the tales. Chaucer's attitude to the set of viragos is enigmatic. By discrediting the reliability of his narrators, he blurs the…
Beidler, Peter G.
Seattle: Coffeetown Press, 2011.
Reprints twenty of Beidler's previously published essays on MilT, WBT, ShT, MerT, and PardT, with an explanatory Preface by Beidler (vii-ix) and a Foreword by Holly A. Crocker (x-xvi) that gauges Beidler's notion of originality and comedy. Includes…
A biography of Blake, "William Blake, ein ausgezeichneter Künstler, Dichter und Narr," mentions his work on his "Canterbury Pilgrims" and his troubled relationships with Thomas Stothard and Robert Cromek.
Six previously published essays by individual authors, an introduction, and a conclusion look at how Chaucer addresses audiences and how contemporary audiences interpret Chaucer's works. Describes the "audience function" and traces the "effect of…
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…
Chewning, Susannah M.
R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), pp. 188-93.
Addresses issues of teaching Gower and Chaucer in college survey classes.
Bertolet, Craig E.
R. F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower (New York: Modern Language Association, 2011), pp. 83-90.
Offers recommendations for teaching Gower in relation to Chaucer's CT.
Collette, Carolyn P., and Harold Garrett-Goodyear, eds.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Anthology of documents pertaining to English literature from 1350-1500. Introduction details historical, social, and political movements of late Middle Ages. Includes annotations, timeline, and chronological listing of major medieval literary works.
Cooper, Lisa H.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Explores literary production and representations of craft labor and artisans in the Middle Ages. Looks at works by Chaucer, Lydgate, and Caxton, as well as lesser-known medieval writers.
Uses Chaucer's works, Mannyng's "Handlyng Sinne," and several Middle English romances to examine conversion as a process by which the self is redefined either in opposition to a dominant class or as a means of admission to it.
Mentions Chaucer (WBP) while discussing the rise of experience as an acceptable authority in the writing of female mystics, supplanting a previous exclusive reliance on traditional authority.
Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 (2011): 41-64.
Contemplates Chaucer's concern with and depictions of therapeutic "intersubjectvity" in light of modern cognitive theory and evolutionary psychology, particularly as expressed by Brian Boyd. Chaucer's "clinical sensibility" (50) is evident in his…
Galloway, Andrew.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 (2011): 65-124.
Uses Maghfield's account book of mercantile and monetary transactions (1390-95) to explore the "ways in which mercantile culture and the 'new literacies' associated with credit and commerce contributed centrally to the development of Ricardian…
Gutiérrez Arranz, José Maria.
José F. González Castro, ed. Perfiles de Grecia y Roma: Actas del XII Congreso Español de Estudios Clásicos, Valencia, 22 al 26 de Octubre de 2007 (Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos, 2011), pp. 433-41.
Examines Chaucer's use of classical mythology from the perspective of how it is reinterpreted, sometimes following Neoplatonism (through St Augustine), and sometimes through other allegorical and moralizing reading.
