Introduces the theory and practice of editing literary works, with contextual materials to help readers understand why and how to edit various kinds of texts and produce various kinds of editions. Includes readings from various theorists and…
Machan, Tim William.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1994.
Machan identifies and defines specific cultural and textual factors particular to Middle English works. He argues that textual criticism, in its evolutionary approach, is consonant with source-and-analogue criticism. Today's standard texts develop…
Fifteenth-century readers of Chaucer shaped the Chaucerian canon and cult of authorship by appropriating both the language and the rhetorical strategy of ClT, wherein the Clerk simultaneously recognizes the authority of Petrarch and appropriates to…
Da Rold, Orietta.
Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker, with the assistance of William Green, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 33-56.
Surveys textual practices in Old and Middle English literary culture, focusing on authorial anxieties about scribes, and comparing what is known and surmised about the texts of Ælfric's "Catholic Homilies" and Chaucer's CT.
Examines the differing ways Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Henryson responded to and imitated Chaucer, observing their sensitivity to his metatextual concerns and his sense of literary history. These three authors do not comprise a single and unified…
Ogura, Michiko, ed.
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006.
Sixteen essays by various authors on linguistic topics in Old and Middle English, including a survey of the teaching of medieval English in Korea. The papers were presented at the first international conference of the Society of Historical English…
Pearsall, Derek.
Robert F. Yeager, ed. Fifteenth-Century Studies: Recent Essays (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984), pp. 121-36.
Argues that manuscripts ignored by editors "often deserve far more than the total neglect" they receive, drawing examples from manuscripts of Chaucer and Langland, including a number of cruces from manuscripts of Chaucer's CT and TC. Comments on…
Laird, Edgar S.
M. Teresa Tavormina, ed. Sex, Aging, and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, Its Text, Language, and Scribe (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008), vol. 2, pp. 607-80.
Laird edits and describes portions of Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52 that pertain to scientific instruments, including several sections from Chaucer's Astr (conclusions 2.37,40,39,and 38).
Scattergood, John,and Julia Boffey,eds.
Dublin: Four Courts, 1997.
Ten essays initially presented at the first three conferences of the Early Book Society: Durham, 1989; Trinity College, Dublin, 1991; and Sheffield, 1993. The essays consider texts and books produced between the late fourteenth and early sixteenth…
Treharne, Elaine, and Claude Willan.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020.
Introduces the study of text technologies, explaining concepts, providing history, and offering case studies. Among the latter is a brief study of the Kelmscott Chaucer as a text that "was created specifically to have a particular aura" in various…
Børch, Marianne, ed.
Odense : University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004.
Ten essays by various authors on medieval verbal and visual rhetoric, with recurrent attention to authority, glossing, and vernacularity. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Text and Voice under Alternative Title.
Emmerson, Richard K.
Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, eds. The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation (San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library; Tokyo: Yushodo, 1995), pp. 143-70.
The twenty-three portraits in the Ellesmere manuscript are not closely related to Chaucer's text. Only eight of the portraits show "striking features" described in GP, and even these eight show details not derived from the text.
Hahn, Thomas,and Richard W. Kaeuper.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 5 (1983): 67-101.
FrT reflects hostility, especially among the lower classes, against widespread corruption and double standards among archdeacons and summoners, as surviving documents of the period amply and graphically suggest.
Ballestra, Gianfranca, and Leslie-Anne Crowley, eds.
Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 2000.
Proceedings from a seminar on Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's short story, "The Wife of Bath," in which a modern character (a Jane Austen fan) travels to Bath and meets a woman, Alice, whose life recalls Chaucer's character in several ways. The story is…
Borowitz, Albert.
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2005.
Traces the development of the traditional story of Herostratos, the arsonist of Diana's temple in Ephesus, and comments (pp. 23-24) that, in light of its inconsistencies with the traditional account, Chaucer's reference (HF 1844) to one who set fire…
Chaganti, Seeta.
Robert John Meyer-Lee and Catherine Sanok, eds. The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form (Cambridge: Brewer, 2018), pp. 185-211.
Contemplates relations among time, seriality, causality, movement, and dancing, exploring the experiences of moving through Robert Smithson's monumental contemporary sculpture "Spiral Jetty" and watching a film of the experience as analogues to the…
Dauby, Hélène.
Danielle Buschinger and Arlette Sancery, eds. Mélanges de langue, littérature et civilisation offerts à André Crépin à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire (Amiens: Presses du Centre d'Études Médiévales, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, 2008), pp. 142-44.
Assesses invocations and formulas used to address divinities, characters,and sources in TC.
Wittig, Joseph S.
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 117-32.
Reads Chaucer's allusion to Tereus, Procne, and Philomela in TC as an "ethical and moral" gloss on his own poem, generating tensions between the refined love of Troilus and Criseyde and the raw passions in Ovid. Also comments on source relations…
Nishihara, Takayuki, and Yoshiyuki Nakao.
Studies in Education (Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University) 3 (2022): 120-28.
Draws parallels between Chaucer's tense shift and Japanese I-mode, where tense shift occurs from the past to the present. Identifies tense shifts across various units, from a single metrical line to an extended piece of discourse consisting of…
Duffell, Martin J.
Language and Literature 22.1 (2013): 19-31.
Argues that, "while Tennyson thought he was composing quantitative hendecasyllables, he was in fact producing accentual verse of a type that English poets had been studiously avoiding for 500 years." Traces the development of Chaucer's iambic…
Demetriou, Tania.
Review of English Studies 71, no. 298 (2020): 19-43.
Refers to a sidenote in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer that is supposed to shed light on the date of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Argues that the ambiguities in the various interpretations circulating may be unriddled to produce…
Strakhov, Elizaveta.
Medium Aevum 85.2 (2016): 236-58.
Contends that Deschamps's "Ballade to Chaucer" alludes to a poetic debate between Philippe de Vitry and Jean de le Mote, to Ovidian exile, and to a poet's oeuvre as a garden. Claims that Deschamps's emphasis on translation and use of French and…
