Burger, Glenn D., and Holly A. Crocker.
Burger and Crocker, eds. Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-24.
Emphasizes how this essay collection presents "an intersectional approach to what medievals call affect and what moderns call emotions," and "speaks to the 'affective turn' in contemporary literary and cultural studies." Introduction provides a close…
The eight manuscript portraits of Chaucer and the three of Hoccleve are described. Those of Chaucer in Ellesmere and Harley 4866 are possibly independent copies of a common ancestor, now lost. All other portraits of Chaucer depend on their…
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…
Discusses temporality and "cultural imaginings" of time in Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Chaucer. Refers to Chaucer's use of narrative and seasonal time and memory in CT, BD, PF, HF, and Astr.
Jones, Mike Rodman.
Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2011.
Includes Chaucerian apocrypha, "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland," in an examination of the figure of the plowman in English early modern imagination, from "Piers Plowman" to the 1590s. Argues that there was a "highly politicized tradition of…
In a section exploring "epic masculinity" in the age of Marlowe, suggests that Chaucer's depiction of Aeneas in LGW and HF anticipates humanist "rethinking" about the hero, that Chaucer "greatly influenced" Marlowe's depiction of him in "Dido, Queen…
Examines influence of commerce and trade in CT, Gower's "Mirour de L'Omme" and "Confessio Amantis," and Hoccleve's "Male Regle" and "Regiment of Princes." Looks at social and cultural implications of how market economies affect literary narratives…
Six related essays on the interaction of words and images in English literary tradition: a theoretical introduction, plus essays on the Ruthwell Cross, Anglo-Saxon art, the Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts, the manuscript of "Pearl," and the…
MacDonald, Paul S.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003.
Includes a chapter entitled "Mind and Soul in English from Chaucer to Shakespeare" (pp. 245-78) that surveys the denotations and connotations of the words "soul" and "mind," with examples drawn a range of authors, including Chaucer.
Includes a study that details the bibliographical and physical instability of two variants of the 1542 Chaucer edition--the Reynes imprint and the Bonham imprint--as they exist in the Hoe, the Chew, and the Hagen-Clark copies, paying particular…
Eyler, Joshua R., ed.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010.
Fourteen essays by various authors on topics ranging from Old English and Icelandic sagas to early modern Spanish literature and Shakespeare's "Richard III." The volume includes an introduction by the editor, an index, and a cumulative bibliography.…
Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2010.
Reprints twelve of Kelly's studies that pertain to Chaucer and his historical contexts, with an introduction, some addenda and corrigenda, and a cumulative index. The essays are reproduced in their original typefaces and with their original…
Reprints twenty-two of Burrow's essays on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poetry, including several on Chaucer. Individual essays retain their original pagination.
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2016
New York: Routledge, 2017.
A critical biography of Haweis that emphasizes her work as a Chaucer scholar, critic, editor, and illustrator, explaining her accomplishments in relation to the better-known Chaucerians of the nineteenth century and exploring why her influence is not…
Defines medieval romance as a narrative (usually poetic) that follows a hero's encounters with "love, ladies, and adventures, culminating in a happy ending." Whetter explores these features in Middle English romances, particularly Malory's "Morte…
Bloomfield Morton W.
Burns, Norman T., and Christopher J. Reagan, eds. Concepts of the Hero in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Papers of the Fourth and Fifth Annual Conferences of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2-3 May 1970, 1-2 May 1971 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975), pp. 27-48.
Documents the "absence of a true charismatic hero who is valiant and noble" in the literature of medieval western Europe, commenting on a wide variety of works, including those by Chaucer, and attributing the late-medieval "retreat from heroism" to a…
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti, eds.
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991.
Examines theory and practice of poetics in medieval English literature, including author-centered, text-centered, and modern theoretical approaches.
For individual essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval…
Cable, Thomas.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 7-29.
Cable traces a pattern of development in English stress "clashing," affected by stress subordination and stress spacing. Chaucer's "alternating metre has frequent stress subordination, but it is less clear that it makes systematic use of stress…
Youmans, Gilbert.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 185-209.
Reexamines Halle and Keyser's three principles of the iambic line as applied to Chaucer's verse, arguing that the verse is better explained by a prototypical hierarchy of stresses than by a pattern of alternating weak and strong stresses. Kiparsky's…
Duffell, Martin J.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 210-18.
Surveys the development and scholarship of hendecasyllabic meter, identifying the innovations whereby Chaucer produced the first English iambic pentamenter and Gower experimented with variable caesura in hendecasyllabic lines to produce Anglo-Norman…
Duggan, Hoyt N.
C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson, eds. English Historical Metrics. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996): pp. 219-37.
Comments on Dryden's and Tyrwhitt's views of Chaucer's meter as background to assessing editorial treatments of the meter of "Pearl." Argues that editors need to emend the manuscript of "Pearl" more aggressively to minimize scribal interventions and…
Caon, Luisella.
C. C. Barfoot, ed. "And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006), pp. 33-47.
Chaucer's uses of thou and ye pronouns "systematically" indicate the "degree of closeness or distance" between lovers in CT, indicating not only formality and informality but also intensity of emotion and shifts in attitudes. Caon surveys previous…
Collette, Carolyn (P.)
C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), 95-107.
Similar in context and form, SNT and PrT have evoked critical commentary on historical background, sources, and analogues. However, PrT has sparked more consistent and recent interest, in part because of the Prioress's personality, her relationship…
Benson, C. David.
C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 1-7.
Darwinian, Freudian, and Marxist approaches to CT have "obscure(d) the historical and intellectual context of the religious tales" (Mel, ParsT, ClT, MLT, PrT, SNT), making them the "most marginalized" of Chaucer's works. Articles in the…
Keiser, George R.
C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 121-36.
In MLT, Chaucer exploited "contemporary taste for stories of beleaguered and pathetic heroines," simultaneously appropriating conventions from his sources and manipulating them to evoke stronger than usual emotional and intellectual responses.
