Carlson, David R.
Modern Language Review 109 (2014): 931-52.
Argues that Gower was "emulous and rivalrous," and eager to better the work of Ovid, Chaucer, and even his own early poetry. Compares Chaucer's use of the Ovidian tale of Ceyx and Alcyone, in BD and HF, with Gower's use of the same material in the…
Critten, Rory G.
Modern Philology 111 (2014): 339-64.
Contends that the poet's self-presentation in English, which bears a resemblance to Chaucer's self-deprecating persona, may have been intended to quell anxieties about his release from prison.
Gelber, Hester Goodenough.
Dallas D. Denery II, Kantik Ghosh, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 285-304.
Argues that Holcot and Chaucer "depict a world in which farce and deception are possible." Discusses how Chaucer's ironic humor and "Chaucerian misdirection" fuel the ambiguity in ClT and NPT.
Zeeman, Nicolette.
Dallas D. Denery II, Kantik Ghosh, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Uncertain Knowledge: Scepticism, Relativism, and Doubt in the Middle Ages (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 213-38.
Examines how writings of Jean de Meun and Chaucer focus on issues of scholastic philosophy and skeptical tradition. Refers specifically to Chaucer's uses of "systematic philosophy" as a narrative tool in WBT, PF, KnT, and TC.
Denery, Dallas D. II, Kantik Ghosh, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.
Interdisciplinary collection examines "disciplinary and methodological forms" of medieval Scholasticism and questions of knowledge in the Middle Ages. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Uncertain Knowledge under Alternative Title.
Hopkins, Amanda, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds.
Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014.
Collection of essays explores British medieval sexuality and sexual expression in literature. Examines fabliaux and romances of Chaucer, Gower, and Malory; alchemical texts; and satirical poetry of William Dunbar. The Introduction (pp. 1-11)…
Rayner, Samantha J.
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 69-83.
Focuses primarily on John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," but does compare Gower's use of spiritual love with Chaucer's subversive lust.
Leitch, Megan G.
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 39-53.
Includes brief consideration of sexuality in Chaucer's work, with specific mention of MilT, RvT, and TC.
Vines, Amy N.
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 161-80.
Discusses the perception of sexual violence in medieval literature, using WBT and "Perceval" by Purcelle de Lis as primary case studies, and describes the medieval misconception that equates sexual assault with heroism.
Kaufman, Amy S.
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 27-37.
Discusses scholarly interpretations of May and Damyan's sexual encounter in MerT, comparing the ideas that it could be categorized as rape/"rough love," an erotic tryst, or an act of female empowerment.
Rushton, Cory James.
Amanda Hopkins, Robert Allen Rouse, and Cory James Rushton, eds. Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain (Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 147-60.
Reviews scholarly criticism of TC. Argues that the effectiveness of the work is in part the result of Chaucer shaping the reader's complicity with Pandarus. Also discusses Criseyde's desirability, and the theme of sexuality in TC and LGW.
Discusses Christine de Pizan's "isopathic mode of treatment (cure by similarities)" to deal with the melancholy expressed in "Chemin de long estude." Compares Pizan's treatment to the "allopathic mode of treatment (cure by contraries)" Chaucer…
Argues that Chaucer's "occlusion" of Boccaccio as a source for TC and KnT is a complex affirmation of literary authority that asserts independence within a "genealogy of erasure." Statius, Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer, and in turn Lydgate,…
Suggests that Chaucer's LGW is part of a "counter-tradition" (also including Shakespeare, Milton, and Lucy Hutchinson) that develops against the epic's "images of sexual violence against marginalized females," and that this counter-tradition provides…
Cooper, Helen.
Review of English Studies 65, no. 269 (2014): 252-65
Briefly mentions Chaucer in a discussion about the literary influences on Milton. John Lane--who continued Chaucer's SqT--may have helped to incite Milton's interest in chivalry and tournaments. Malory is also a likely influence, although never…
Chapter 2, "Scraping the Rust from the Joking Bard: Chaucer in the Age of Wit," explores the long eighteenth century's conflicted reception of Chaucerian wit. While Chaucer was perceived as an "originary figure" of the English language as well as an…
Gingell, Susan, and Tara Chambers.
English Studies in Canada 40.04 (2014): 79-106.
Analyzes "womanist dubbing" of male-authored texts, including WBP, that represents Afrasporic women's sexuality. Breeze's "sexually frank" poems, "The Wife of Bath Speaks in Brixton Market," and "Slam Poems," are set in the Caribbean, but share…
Reconstructs the narrative progress of TC in a sequence of some 200 seven-line poems, approximating rhyme royal, keyed by line numbers to Chaucer's work, and arranged in five books; running footers link the verse with the plot. Individual poems give…
Historical novel set in London,1383, featuring John Gower as a first-person narrator, recounting events involved in the murder of a prostitute and a book prophesying an attempt on the life of Richard II. Gower's "slippery friend," Geoffrey Chaucer,…
Patuleanu, Ioana.
Journal of Narrative Technique 44.02 (2014): 159-82.
Refers to Jane Barker's use in an early novel of Dryden's retelling of CT to provide context for her 1723 anti-novel, "A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies."
Investigates character development, language, and motifs of GP, CT, and TC to establish the extent of Chaucer's influence on the sixteenth-century poem "Debate betweene Pride and Lowlines."
Reads "The Churl and the Bird" as John Lydgate's self-conscious rumination on "the poetic and philosophical implications" of willfully refusing to accept confinement. Includes comments on SqT, ManT, and Chaucer's influence on Lydgate.
Emphasizes Chaucer's influences on Hoccleve, paying special attention to ClT as an intertext with Hoccleve's "Letter," where Hoccleve appears rather misogynist. Yet, in the "Series," harkening back to his "Letter," Hoccleve seems to ridicule his…
Looks at writers, including Hoccleve and Lydgate, as responding to and shaping a post-Chaucerian literary era, examining both the "end" of Chaucer's era and the "end" or purpose of their own work.
