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Kozikowski, Christine.   DAI A74.11 (2014): n.p.
Compares elements of privacy (e.g., "access, intimacy, and withdrawal") in official documents and records to canonical literary works including TC, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and Malory.

Woods, William F.   Chaucer Review 29 (1994): 166-78.
In MilT, the house and the space around it symbolize both the tale itself and the principal characters. The top floor represents the "heavenly" sphere where the flood is predicted and awaited; the middle, or "earthly," level is Alison's bedroom; and…

Farrell, Thomas J.   ELH 56 (1989): 773-95.
MilT serves as a corrective to KnT (where chaos in effect breaks down order) by exceeding the typical symmetry of the fabliau (a genre in which order properly has no part). Departing from the "pryvete" set up in its many senses, MilT develops and…

Webb, Diana.   New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2007.
Surveys medieval notions and representations of privacy in relation to various religious and devotional practices, study, gardening, social spaces, and the demise of community. Comments recurrently on Chaucer's depictions of solitude, focusing on his…

Karita, Motoshi, trans.   Tokyo : Hon no tomo sha, 1998.
Reprint of Japanese translation of TC with notes and commentary, based on F. N. Robinson's edition. First published in 1948.

Rose, E. M.   Studies in the Age of Chaucer 44 (2022): 63-92.
Reconsiders questions of the composition and occasion of PrT (here titled "Clergeon") before Chaucer incorporated it into the CT, arguing on biographical, stylistic, and liturgical grounds that Chaucer may have originally composed the poem as early…

Echard, Siân.   Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Echard studies the "postmedieval life of medieval texts" as they are embodied in material form, exploring strategies for representing the authenticity of the texts and for reimagining them for new audiences. The book includes chapters on design…

Higl, Andrew.   Essays in Medieval Studies 23 (2006): 57-77.
Explores why Chaucer was more marketable than either Gower or Lydgate in sixteenth-century England: Chaucer's variety, flexibility, and malleability made him more adaptable to various publics and therefore more attractive to early printers than other…

Erler, Mary C.   Chaucer Review 33 (1999): 221-29, 1999.
Manuscripts used as copy by printers are scarce. An examination of MS Bodley 638 reveals both codicological and textual evidence that discloses the printers' intentions. The 1530 edition of PF, used by Robert Copland, was established from this…

Fletcher, Bradford Y.   Studies in Bibliography 31 (1978): 184-201.
Though only three of the twenty-four poems attributed to the poet in John Stowe's "Chaucer" of 1561 are now accepted as genuine, comparative study of the mss used reveals remarkable substantive accuracy in the text of this early edition.

Hofer, Kristin Rochelle.   Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 1393A, 2000.
Although Caxton, Thynne, and Speght use comparable techniques to establish Chaucer's works by collating, restoring, and emending texts, their editions reveal various and individual methods.

Gillespie, Alexandra.   Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Analyzing the impact of print on already-existing ideas of authorship, Gillespie argues "that the medieval author was a mechanism for ordering the new meanings of texts in print," even when the understanding of that author was a result, or…

Barthel, Carol.   David A. Richardson, ed. Spenser: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern (Cleveland State University, 1977), pp. 72-83. [Microfiche available from the Department of English.]
In adapting the outdated motif of the medieval romance of dreaming of a fairy queen from Chaucer's Thop, Spenser blends naiveté and sophistication.

Rogerson, Margaret.   Sydney Studies in English 32 (2006): 45-63.
Surveys efforts to popularize CT through media (television, audio recordings, stage, and animation), commenting most extensively on the 2003 BBC television series.

Brown, Emerson,Jr.   Studies in Philology 72 (1975): 258-74.
Chaucer emphasizes the phallic deity Priapus as a figure of frustration in PF. He does not try to abolish or deify the sexual passion Priapus represents. Priapus and the noble suitors may represent unproductive extremes of a more balanced position…

Scala, Elizabeth.   Film History 29.1-2: 34-45, 1999.
Argues that the 1990 film Pretty Woman is understandable as an analogue to medieval Fair Unknown romances and that, like WBT, the film affirms and inverts the ideology of romance through self-conscious nostalgia.

Lochrie, Karma.   Textual Practice 13: 295-313, 1999.
Argues that sodomy in medieval literature must be understood as an "unspecified plurality of acts and intentions," which includes women as well as men. Female sodomy occupies the "silent place in the discourse" that must be acknowledged in modern…

Horn, Adam Tyler.   Dissertation Abstracts International A83.02 (E)
Ph.D. Dissertation. Columbia University, 2021
Argues for using "a Bernardine anagogical lens" to assess theological depth in CT and "Piers Plowman," and traces allusions and references to Bernard of Clairvaux in "Piers," ParsT, and the "Prick of Conscience.."

Mathur, Indira.   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. 101-10.
Establishes a link between the "preamble" in WBP and the sermon genre.

Shute, Rosie.   English Studies 98 (2017): 262-82.
Analyzes parallel sections of text from William Caxton's two editions of CT set by the same compositor—Mel and ParsT, NPT and ManT—comparing practices in prose tales and verse tales, and also comparing the practices of the compositor of Richard…

Syme, Alison.   Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 28, no. 2 (2019): 42–69; 12 b&w illus.
Analyzes Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations of Rom in the Kelmscott Chaucer, arguing that they--and especially the final illustration of the poem--epitomize many of Burne-Jones's experiences with and attitudes toward books, book history, and the…

Dane, Joseph A., and Seth Lerer.   Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 11.4 (1999): 468-79.
Assesses variations in copies of Stow's edition of Chaucer and suggests that copies with woodcuts may have been printed before those without and that Stow himself may have been involved in in-house corrections to the text, particularly that of Adam.…

Hardman, Phillipa.   William K. Finley and Joseph Rosenblum, eds. Chaucer Illustrated: Five Hundred Years of the Canterbury Tales in Pictures (New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll; London: British Library, 2003), pp. 37-72.
Focuses on the ordinatio and implications of illustrations to CT (apart from those in the Ellesmere MS): the "generic 'author' image" found in MS Lansdowne 851, MS Bodley 686, and the "Devonshire" MS; the portrait of the Friar in MS Rawlinson poet.…

Shetler, Brian M.   Dissertation Abstracts International A80.08 (2019): n.p.
Surveys the history of handpress printing of CT, analyzing 140 editions, with particular attention to paratextual material as indication of Chaucer's reception and the "abundance of mediation."

Hanna, Ralph, III.   Tim William Machan, ed. Medieval Literature: Texts and Interpretation. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies,no. 79. (Binghamton, N.Y.: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1991), pp. 17-39.
English respect for vernacular authors anticipates the Renaissance. Chaucer created for our language and its heritage a conception of culturally significant authority based on textual correctness. More than other Middle English poets, Chaucer…
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