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Saunders, Claire.   Linda Cookson and Bryan Loughrey, ed. Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (Harlow: Longman, 1989), pp. 72-80.
Gauges how subject, author, and reader "interact with varying degrees of subtlety in the GP descriptions of the pilgrims: the "snapshot" (Yeoman), idealization (Parson), caricature (Summoner), balance between ideal and caricature (Wife of Bath), and…

Saunders, Corinne [J.]   Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary. (Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 85-103.
Chaucer transcended and transgressed the commonly accepted conventions of "romance": Th parodies the genre, while BD elevates its status by associating romance with classical works. Th, KnT, SqT, FranT, and WBT reflect a variety of approaches to…

Saunders, Corinne [J.]   Helen Cooney, ed. Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 45-61.
Apart from Chaucer's works, most romances in Middle English "rewrite" their French and Latin analogues, representing the virtuous aspects of love rather than the conventions of the courtly game. Chaucer's writing exemplifies the "extremes of fin…

Saunders, Corinne [J.]   Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre and M. Nila Vázquez González, eds. Medieval English Literary and Cultural Studies (Murcia: Universidad de Muscia, 2004), pp. 121-43.
Surveys medieval beliefs and learning about magic and explores the narrative function and resonance of magic and the supernatural in Chaucer's writing. Also considers relations to natural philosophy or "science" and the shift from medieval to…

Saunders, Corinne [J.]   Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 134-55.
Saunders traces elements of Chaucer's "rarefied treatment of love" to Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, troubadours, trouvères, and Ovid, arguing that Chaucer developed a notion of "fin' amors" to treat philosophical questions as well as the…

Saunders, Corinne [J.]   Amanda Hopkins and Cory James Rushton, eds. The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.; and Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007), pp. 38-52.
Through otherworldly female characters, a number of Middle English romances and their French ancestors "interweave" heterosexual, romantic desire with magic and the supernatural. WBT, however, "subverts" this convention by reproving the violence of…

Saunders, Corinne [J.], ed.   Oxford : Blackwell, 2000.
An anthology of reprinted critical discussions divided into four sections: Chaucer's reading and readership (3 essays or excerpts), dream poetry (7 essays or excerpts), TC (5 essays or excerpts), and CT (10 essays or excerpts). Saunders prefaces each…

Saunders, Corinne [J.], ed.   Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006.
Thirteen essays intended for the new and returning student of Chaucer. Following the editor's introduction (pp. 1-10) describing facets of Chaucer's art and life and the contents of the collection, the work is divided into parts: Chaucer in Context,…

Saunders, Corinne J.   Corinne J. Saunders. The Forest of Medieval Romance: Arvernus, Broceliande, Arden. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 155-62.
Explores Chaucer's use of romance conventions of the forest and the hunt. BD offers a particularly "artificial forest," reflecting the artifice of the work. In FrT, the forest is a kind of hell; in TC, the place of greatest freedom. WBT overturns…

Saunders, Corinne J.   Arthurian Literature 13 (1995): 115-31.
Assesses the rape in WBT in light of rape as an "episodic unit" in medieval romance and in light of medieval law.

Saunders, Corinne J.   Susan Deacy and Karen F. Pierce, eds. Rape in Antiquity (London: Duckworth, in association with The Classical Press of Wales, 1997), pp. 243-66
Assesses medieval literary representations of rape in light of law, medicine, and theology. Reads Chaucer's account of Lucretia in LGW as a challenge to Augustine's admonitions against suicide, and the account of Philomela as proto-feminist. Compares…

Saunders, Corinne J.   Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2001.
Surveys modern and postmodern theorizing of rape and addresses rape in medieval England. Topics include secular, legal notions of rape; rape in canon law, theology, and confessional manuals (especially vernacular ones); rape motifs in hagiography…

Saunders, Corinne J., and Richard Lawrie, with Laurie Atkinson, eds.   Leiden: Brill, 2022.
Seventeen essays by various authors on topics in Middle English manuscripts, their legacies, and the career of Ian Doyle, with an introduction by Saunders and Lawrie, an afterword by Linne Mooney and Derek Pearsall, a list of Doyle's publications by…

Saunders, Corinne, ed.   Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
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…

Saunders, Corinne.   Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 647-60.
Discusses the "living tradition" of Middle English poetry in later English culture, commenting on continuities, revivals, and imitations, with recurrent references to the status of Chaucer.

Saunders, Corinne.   Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 452-75.
Introduces CT as the "epitome" of Chaucer's "literary experimentation," commenting on his social range, the unfinished nature of the work, and, especially, its generic variety--"romance, fabliau, beast-fable, saint's life, miracle story, sermon,…

Saunders, Corinne.   Laura Ashe, Ivana Djordjević, and Judith Weiss, eds. The Exploitations of Medieval Romance (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 108-24.
The use of magic was exploitative and morally ambiguous; however, with the thirteenth-century rise of universities, attitudes shifted: through natural magic and great learning, one could harness natural powers. The "highly intellectual" FranT…

Saunders, Corinne.   Chaucer Review 51.1 (2016): 11-30.
Discusses "the power of affect on minds and bodies" and the "psychology of love and loss" in Chaucer's works. Explores relationship between women's literary culture and roles of women in BD, KnT, TC, and LGW.

Saunders, Corinne.   David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, and Jane Macnaughton, eds. The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 87-109.
Describes various depictions of breath, breathlessness, and "vital spirits" that signal deep emotion in medieval literature, including comments on BD, TC, and KnT, among other courtly and religious works.

Saunders, Corinne.   Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 107-24.
Comments on medieval and modern understandings of hearing voices, then assesses the phenomenon in Middle English romances and mystical accounts. Demonstrates how in TC and BD Chaucer "extends romance motifs" to explore "the processes of the…

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…

Saunders, Corrine.   In Stephanie M. Hilger, ed. New Directions in Literature and Medicine Studies (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 119-41.
Identifies where "[a]cross his writings . . . Chaucer treats mind, body, and affect in sophisticated ways that go far beyond convention," focusing particularly on lovelorn knights in BD, KnT, and TC, and swooning women in ClT, MLT, and LGW. Argues…

Saunders, Corrine.   Arthur Rose, Stefanie Heine, Naya Tsentourou, Corrine Saunders, and Peter Garratt, Reading Breath in Literature ([Cham]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 17-39.
Treats the connections between "mind, body and affect" in BD, KnT, TC, MLT, LGW, and elsewhere, describing classical and medieval theories of breathing, sighing, and swooning as physiological movements of vital spirits. Playing a key role in…

Saunders, Corrine.   Hilary Powell and Corinne Saunders, eds. Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 91-116.
Exemplifies ways in which medieval "romance writing takes up the notion that physiological processes and exterior influences can interweave to produce powerful psychological experiences," showing how the "creative possibilities of interweaving the…

Savage, Anne.   Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al., eds. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain: Essays for Felicity Riddy (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2000), pp. 345-61.
Despite differences in genre, these narratives include a father who "constructs the circumstances in which he could marry his daughter." Pointedly excluded from consideration in MLP, paternal incest posed in ClT (between Walter and his daughter) is…
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