McGillivray, Murray.
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 1-15.
Explores the possibilities of representing medieval manuscripts within the present limits of technology and the normal scholar's finances, using TEI-SGML (Text Encoding Initiative-Standard Generalized Markup Language) and some graphic representation.…
Denley, Marie.
Helen Phillips, ed. Langland, the Mystics, and the English Religious Tradition: Essays in Honour of S. S. Hussey. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1990, pp. 223-41.
Includes brief discussion of ABC in light of alphabetic poems and other medieval teaching devices.
Green, Richard Firth.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Presents (in a postscript) how Chaucer's attitudes and "amused skepticism" toward fairies influenced later writers, including Spenser and Shakespeare. Analyzes connections between historiography of early modern witch-hunts and popular superstitions…
Observes that references to Elijah and Elisha in SumT 3.2116-18 evince "Chaucer's awareness, if not endorsement, of the widely held belief that the 'earliest anchorite' Elijah was the founder of the Carmelite Order," and provides various features of…
Trevisan identifies in Eliot's "Prufrock" possible echoes of the Monk's description from GP. "Prufrock" may also have been influenced by Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
Andretta, Helen R[uth].
Jonathan Gates, ed. Proceedings: 1999 Northeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature (Surf City, N. J.: American Graphic Services, 2000), pp. 1-13.
Compares T. S. Eliot's worldview in "The Waste Land" with Chaucer's view of the "world as a wilderness" in CT and Truth. Both poets see the need for renewal.
Hodder, Karen.
Studies in Medievalism 7 (1996): 105-30
Explores the influence of medieval models of women on Barrett's poetry, arguing that, among others, Chaucer's works deserve greater attention in this respect. Considers Barrett's modifications of Anel in "Chaucer Modernized" and assesses aspects of…
Describes principles of aesthetic appreciation evident in Elizabethan architecture, painting, sculpture, music, and literature, including a section entitled "The Elizabethan Appreciation of Chaucer" (pp. 223-30) which emphasizes admiration of Chaucer…
Queen, Ellery, ed.
[New York]: New American Library, 1967.
Anthologizes twenty-three short prose narratives by English and American writers, with a brief, appreciative literary biography for each, and an introductory essay on the nature of anthologies. Includes an excerpt from PardT (pp. 3-8) in Percy…
Surveys details of each of the GP descriptions of the pilgrims and each of the Ellesmere illustrations to show that the Ellesmere illustrator was a "close reader" of Chaucer. Refers to 22 figures; includes a summary in Turkish
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…
Killough, George.
James M. Hutchisson, ed. Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism (Troy: N. Y.: Whitson Publishing, 1997), pp. 162-74.
The Pardoner and Elmer Gantry are "charlatan preachers," who are "comic satirical types." Both characters "reveal their own very human limits" and exemplify their authors' concern with the inadequacy of serious words to convey truth.
Hardman, C. B.
Reading Medieval Studies 6 (1980): 20-30.
Though Chaucer's reputation in the 16th century depended partly on works wrongly attributed to him, he was thought of as a proto-Puritan thinker, a model of eloquence, a love poet. Thus Spenser found it advantageous in the "Shepheardes Calendar" to…
Reprints twenty-seven essays by Wenzel and adds one previously unpublished lecture: "Moral Chaucer?" (pp. 189-204) which considers the "moral life" of Chaucer's characters, focusing on the "decision-making" by the two main characters in TC, and…
Reevaluation and continuation of the studies by John Burrow and by Richard Firth Green on the meaning of the word "elvish" in CT. "Elvish" in CYT carries the meaning "delusory," whereas elvish in the prologue to Th means "abstracted."
Burrow, J. A.
M. Teresa Tavormina and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 105-11.
Explores connotations of "elvyssh" in Pr-ThL as an aspect of "Chaucer's poetic self-representations" in CT and in HF, suggesting that they indicate characteristic reserve.
Rowland, Beryl.
John V. Fleming and Thomas J. Heffernan, eds. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings, No. 2, 1986. (Knoxville, Tenn.: New Chaucer Society, 1987): pp. 3-14.
Rowland reviews Chaucer biography, noting the reluctance of most SAC contributors to explore Chaucer's life and their interest in his "mentality." Recent biography leaves a number of unresolved problems, difficulties, and mysteries in Chaucer's…
Rogers, Laura Mestayer.
Medieval Feminist Forum 31: 36-43, 2001.
Assessment of Schlauch's career and criticism, focusing on her Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (1927; rpt. 1969). Includes a bibliography of Schlauch's publications.
Interprets the GP description of the Prioress as a satire of an institution rather than a critique of an individual, offering the reading as a prolegomenon to a comparative discussion of the challenges of teaching English and teaching foreign…
As part of a larger discussion of "loathliness" and the transformation away from loathliness in the context of marginalization of women, examines WBPT. Particular attention is paid to "the implications of disembodying a Loathly Lady in a tale that…
Inskeep, Kathryn.
Dissertation Abstracts International A74.12 (2014): n.p.
Studies the "role of stigma in determining the social value of a lone woman of loathly proportions or perceptions," discussing a range of texts, medieval to postmodern, including two chapters on WBPT that assess the loathly lady as the "alter ego" of…
Randall, Jackie.
Rouse Hill, NSW: Schillings, 2016.
Item not seen; WorldCat information indicates this is a children's novel, set in the Middle Ages, about a gifted girl who flees her home in order to protect a Chaucer manuscript.
