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Explores the semantic and cultural fields underlying the terms 'Breton' and 'Celtic'. Posits that Chaucer willingly betrays his knowledge of the traditional geography and culture connected with Breton lays in FranT.

Discusses theoretical approaches to the study of Breton lays, including gender and postcolonial studies. Includes brief references to FranT.

Argues that Chaucer's interest in Breton lays rests on the genre's association with magic and language. WBT has features of a Breton lay, but is not marked as such; FranT, even though it has its sources in the Italian novelle, is marked as a Breton…

Compares FranT with Breton lays, and centers on how memory, and the unreliability of the past, weaken the connection between Middle English lays and Breton lays.

Concentrates on rhythm in FranT and contends that FranT is successful as a poetic composition, but cannot claim to be a Breton lay.

Although courtly love, magic, and supernatural situations make up the framework of FranT, the role played by binding agreements, contracts, and consent in the Tale alters the traditional definition of magic. Claims that fourteenth-century society was…

Includes the argument that the material context of FranT must be considered as a relevant framework for reading Middle English Breton lays.

Considers walking and other forms of mobility in terms of social expectations of urban movement and movers. Examines works by various authors, including Chaucer, Hoccleve, and Shakespeare.

Combines traditional literary Chaucerian scholarship with innovative ways of looking at the material culture of medieval texts and early modern drama. Focuses on how Chaucer plays with time, "temporal circularity," and textual history. Includes…

Recognizes the difficulties surrounding modern translations of Chaucer's work and its relation to humanism. Using Nazmi Ǎgıl's Turkish translation of SqT as a test case, argues that studying non-anglophone translations of CT activates both Emily…

Introduces the essays in a special issue of ChauR dedicated to Lee Patterson.

Refers to Chaucer throughout, first by supposing what his early education was like, then by addressing the late-medieval relation between Latin and English as evident in HF, NPT, and ManT. Argues that "the work of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower…

Includes thirty-eight essays, new and previously printed. by various authors who examine debates within English medieval literary studies on topics that focus on gender and sexuality, politics, language, nationhood, science, and desire. For six…

Examines the "logic of sacrifice" that motivates actions in KnT, arguing that previous criticism "has done insufficient justice to the vile enjoyment and identificatory power" of KnT.

Looks at Rome's classical geography and topography within Petrarch's "Letter to Colonna" and Chaucer's SNT. Argues that these "medieval topographies" create ways of "taxonomizing space" and deepen an understanding of the material history of medieval…

Responds to two critical analyses of PrT by Aranye Fradenburg and Lee Patterson, which highlight "methodological and ethical concerns" with historical analysis of the Tale. Promotes the need to "theorize and historicize" in order to gain deeper…

Emphasizes an ironic view of Parson's "exploration of 'lawful pleasure'" and contends that ParsT can be viewed as a "psychological experience of delight."

Examines the titular writings as early examples of English prison writing, with an eye toward political implications of the texts and the establishment of a relationship between social status and "carceral experience" in these works. Includes…

Includes brief commentary on the medieval use of "incipits," with specific reference to TC.

Rather than consider the forests and woods in Chaucer's work symbolically, offers an eco-materialist reading of Chaucer's work as Clerk of the King and as forester of North Petherton. Argues that these positions inform Chaucer's settings and…

Highlights prominent connections among dreams, medicine, and literature in Chaucer's poetry. Argues that dreams and medicine are integral aspects of Chaucer's works and that the poet shows how they can be experienced through literature to bring…

A collection of Jill Mann's previously published essays, edited with an introduction by Mark David Rasmussen. The Preface explains that the essays are organized around exploring the implications of key words as ways to understand human experience in…

Wide-ranging introduction to Chaucer's life and works for students and scholars. Includes philosophical, theoretical, and literary connections that celebrate the canonical importance of Chaucer's authority.

Investigates the collision between eroticisms and anti-eroticisms in Chaucer's works in which the queer appears. When these two concepts circulate in Chaucer's stories, the characters must confront both their identity-formation and their…

F. J. Furnivall founded seven literary and publishing societies (including the Chaucer and New Shakespeare Societies). Furnivall describes Wyclif "as the first translator of our Bible and THE FATHER OF ENGLISH PROSE" in an attempt "to foist prose…