Toner, Anne.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Studies various kinds of narrative suspension and ellipsis in English literature, and includes comments on a reference to SqT in the expository essay that accompanies the Gothic tale "Sir Bertram, a Fragment" (1773). Connects the essay with Thomas…
Johnston, Michael, and Michael Van Dussen, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Focuses on aspects of the cultural situations of the medieval book. Examines elements of bibliography, social context, linguistics, archeology, and conservation within a broader view of the theory and praxis of manuscript study. For an essay that…
D'Arcens, Louise, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Presents essays on the scope and complexity of the study of medievalism that explore how the Middle Ages have been adapted and interpreted. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Cambridge Companion to Medievalism under Alternative…
Machan, Tim William, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Thirteen essays by various authors consider new and traditional conceptualizations of medieval English language and literature. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Imagining Medieval English under Alternative Title
Novacich, Sarah Elliott.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Explores how "poetic form, staging logistics, and the status of performance" contribute to our understanding of how medieval thinkers imagined the "ethics and pleasures of the archive." Includes discussion of HF, MLT, MilT, and Rom.
Prendergast, Thomas A., and Jessica Rosenfeld, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Includes nine essays, an index, and an introduction by the editors. Adopting a new formalist methodology that attends both to aesthetics and historicism, the volume focuses on "the incompleteness and self-contradictory nature of form" in Chaucer's…
Heng, Geraldine
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Provides a comprehensive view of how "race" is defined in the premodern world and addresses the process of "race-making" within and outside the European context. In particular, discusses how Jews in England were "racialized" and analyzes the "sensory…
Walter, Katie.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Explores the transgressive and reparative potential of the mouth in medieval thinking--scientific, pastoral, and literary (especially "Piers Plowman"). Includes no sustained attention to Chaucer's works, but the index lists nearly forty references to…
Meyer-Lee, Robert.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019
Discusses literary value and the value of continued interest in Chaucer's CT, focusing on parts 4 and 5. Argues that these parts function as a unified group, a framing that offers a new way to read and discover the value of the other CT tales.
Burger, Glenn D., and Holly A. Crocker, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Collection of essays charting new investigations of intersectionality of affects, feelings, and emotions in non-religious texts. Authors range from Chaucer to Gavin Douglas, and essays explore practices of witness to the "adoration of objects," and…
Johnson, Ian, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Includes fifty brief essays that offer "historical and conceptual information and perspectives" to aid in understanding Chaucer's works: J. A. Burrow, "What Was Chaucer Like?"; Andrew Galloway, "Chaucer's Life and Literary 'Profession'"; Jeremy J.…
Grady, Franks, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Includes nineteen contributions that analyze critical histories and reappraisals of specific tales and their contexts. For individual essays, search for Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales under Alternative Title.
Da Rold, Orietta, and Elaine Treharne, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Thirteen essays by various writers on the Hows, Whys, and Wheres of studying medieval manuscripts, with an Introduction by the editors, A Guide to Further Reading, an index of manuscripts, and a comprehensive index. For two essays that pertain to…
Da Rold, Orietta.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Rethinks the uses and "affordances" of paper in medieval England and on the Continent, i.e., its potentialities, manifestations, and material significations in book production and other cultural practices. Opens with an explanation of how Chaucer…
Witcher, Heather Bozant.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Chapter 4--"Typographical Adventures: William Morris, Community, and the Kelmscott Press"--includes discussion of the "sympathetic collaboration" (a concept theorized by William Morris) between Edward Burne-Jones and Robert Catterson-Smith in…
Wakelin, Daniel.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Investigates how the practices of fifteenth-century scribes of manuscripts of English poetry and prose--particularly CT manuscripts, and works by Lydgate and Hoccleve--reveal "traces of immaterial traditions, intentions, assumptions, activities and…
Taylor, Joseph.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Examines "the North as a regional concept in the literature of medieval England," considering a range of texts from Bede's "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum" to the Towneley plays. Chapter 4, "Chaucer's Northern Consciousness in the 'Reeve's…
Singh, Devani.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Focuses "on fifteenth-century manuscripts of Chaucer, and . . . how these volumes were read, used, valued, and transformed" in the early modern period, reflecting "conventions which circulated in print and . . . convey prevailing preoccupations about…
Butterfield, Ardis, Ian Johnson, and Andrew Kraebel, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Comprises twelve essays by various authors on topics relating to medieval literary interpretation and theory, rhetoric, and manuscript study, with an introduction by Andrew Kraebel, an account of Minnis's "Career and Contributions" by Vincent…
Allen, Valerie, and David Kirkham,eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1998.
Middle English text of WBPT and the GP description of the Wife of Bath, with notes, glossary, and discussion questions on facing pages. Includes commentary on Chaucer's life, contemporary social issues (including pilgrimage), and the rest of CT.…
Innes, Sheila, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2001.
Middle English text of MerPT and the GP description of the Merchant,with notes, glossary, and discussion questions on facing pages. Includes contextual information concerning Chaucer's life, courtly love, and the rest of CT, particularly the…
Robinson, Peter, ed., with contributions from N. F. Blake, Daniel W. Mosser, Stephen Partridge, and Elizabeth Solopova.
Cambridge: Cambridge Unviersity Press, 1996.
Contains original-spelling transcripts of all fifty-four manuscripts and four pre-1500 printed editions of WBP, with digitized images of every page of text contained in these sources (1,200 images in all). The transcripts are linked with two…
Mitchell, J. Allan.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004.
Examines the ethics of exemplarity in "Confesso Amantis" and in CT, arguing that reading for the moral--deliberating ethically--is improvisatory and reflexive and aims at practice rather than theory. Exemplarity involves the reader in its moral…
