McNamara, John Francis.
DAI 29.09 (1969): 3148-49A.
In TC and "several important" tales of CT, Chaucer expresses more "confidence in human nature" than do Langland or the "Pearl"-poet in their works. He indicates the human need for divine Providence and assurance that "God will not use his absolute…
Butterfield, Ardis.
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 199-212.
Considers how technologies of memory inform reflections on composition, literary relationships, and the elegiac project in BD, engendering a "focused commentary" on the "work of recollection." In this, BD participates in a discursive field shared by…
Buhrer, Eliza.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 315-16.
Comments on issues of complaint and consent in two essays included in this volume of SAC, linking the medieval past with the present. Includes response to Micah James Goodrich, “The Yeoman's Canon: On Toxic Mentors."
Shutters, Lynn.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 359-60.
Responds to two essays concerned with sexual consent in medieval literature, including Leah Schwebel, “Chaucer and the Fantasy of Retroactive Consent." SAC 44 (2022): 337–45. Suggests that we might read RvT "as an incel revenge fantasy."
Bradbury, Jill Marie, Geoffrey Clegg, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum,
Pamela Kincheloe, and Tonya Stremlau.
Literature Compass 16.1 (2019): n.p.
A group of "deaf/Deaf/hard of hearing scholars with wide-ranging expertise in literary studies, rhetoric, disability studies, and Deaf Studies" express "deep reservations" about Robinson's essay.
Solberg, Emma Margaret.
New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy & Profession 2.2 (2021): 134-53.
Responds to earlier essays in NCSPP, adding comments on the sexual biases of the opening of GP, comparison of the Man in Black of BD and Marie de France’s Guigemar, Chauce'’s (and others') self-deprecation as a form of (sexualized) power, and…
Steiner, Emily.
Mary C. Flannery and Katie C. Walter, eds. The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England (Cambridge: Brewer, 2013), pp. 164-72.
Responds to the nine essays in this volume, exploring relations among inquisition, innovation, creativity, and imagination. Discusses LGWP as a poem that "seeks its inventiveness in law at the same time that it invites its readers to enjoy the…
Hansen, Elaine Tuttle.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 277-87.
Expresses concerns about contemporary higher education--from "prevailing careerism to the overall decline in literary reading"--and encourages "Chaucerian values" among university administrators.
Swenson, Haylie.
Will Rogers and Christopher Michael Roman, eds. Medieval Futurity: Essays for the Future of a Queer Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020), pp. 189-96.
Reassesses the role and value of the falcon and the mechanical horse in SqT. Demonstrates through these depictions that SqT creates "interspecies and intrasexual relationships of care outside of the gendered human norms of chivalric romance."
Examines feminist and antifeminist readings Criseyde, arguing that--like Chaucer, who appropriates his sources, and like his narrator, who constantly negotiates and repositions himself in relation to Lollius--Criseyde performs, mimes, and parodies…
Palmer, R. Barton.
David Galef, ed. Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998), pp. 169-95.
Argues that in reading BD medieval audiences would also have reread Machaut's "Fonteinne Amoureuse" and recalled other works by Chaucer's predecessor. Chaucer's derivative version of the account of Ceyx and Alcyone "thematizes the story as a…
Stenner, Rachel, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019.
Twelve essays on Spenser's knowledge of and uses of Chaucer as source or inspiration. The introduction by the editors summarizes earlier critical studies, describes the essays, and asserts that the essays together "characterise the relationships…
Madsen, Deborah L.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Defines allegory by structural features of plot rather than by content, surveying theory and history of the genre from the classics to contemporary criticism. Briefly considers BD and PF as allegories.
Arner, Timothy.
Comparative Literature 69.2 (2017): 160-80.
Shows that Lucan's "Bellum civile," the medieval "accessus" tradition, and "vitae Lucani" together depict the Roman poet as a "violated female," victimized by his "tyrannical emperor," and abruptly silenced, arguing that this legacy influenced LGW…
Barefield, Laura D.
Dissertation Abstracts International 59 (1999): 2489A.
At the crux of chronicle and romance, Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia" provides much of the basis for later literature. The work emphasizes women not only as child bearers but also as speakers who could uphold or deny legitimacy. Barefield discusses…
Krummel, Miriamne Ara.
The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, in and out of Time (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2022), pp. 185-229; illus.
Interprets four manuscript versions of ClT (here retitled "The Legend of the Litel Clergeon and the Jews") that occur outside the context of CT, "excise" Chaucer's authorship, and adjust their temporalities, addressing "their own distinct identities,…
Lawton, Lesley.
Jean-Paul Debax, ed. Actes de l'atelier "Moyen Age" du XLVe congrès de la SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur). Paris: Publications de l'Association des Médiévistes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2006, pp. 31-46.
Discusses John Gower's "Vox Clamantis," with passing mention of Chaucer.
Edwards, A. S. G.
Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 65-79.
Edwards surveys attempts to "historicize" the representation of Middle English texts, from black letter type to computer transcription, focusing on the nineteenth-century efforts of Frederic Madden. Includes recurrent references representing the…
Morris, Andrew Jeffrey.
Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2005): 4555A
As part of a larger discussion of medieval estate management and its literary representations, Morris examines the character of Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Oswald the Reeve.
Moore, Colette.
Dissertation Abstracts International 65 (2005): 3815A
Moore shows that medieval poems (including Chaucer's) "exploit the less-determined systems of medieval speech marking for aesthetic and rhetorical purposes."
