Rohr, M. R.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968): 20-31.
Argues that George Gascoigne's reading of TC inspired aspects of his "Adventures of Master F. J." [or F. I.]. In particular, identifies parallels to the scene Troilus's fainting (TC 3.1092), the character of Criseyde, the "self-effacing pose" of…
Explores the complex workings of an allusion to the Wife of Bath in Joyce's "Ulysses " that resonates with Irish mythology, Yeats, and Irish political power.
Bawcutt, Priscilla.
Review of English Studies 21, no. 84 (1970): 401-21.
Identifies a number of parallels between Chaucer's works and those of Gavin Douglas, focusing on "Eneados" and demonstrating that "Douglas owes far more to Chaucer than has been generally recognized." Not a "servile imitator," Douglas, "like…
Morse, Ruth.
Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 107-21.
Chaucer influenced Douglas in many ways: "as a model for diction and register, as a source of phrase and adapter of syntax, as an establisher of the Dream Poem...; Chaucer's "House of Fame" stands as the inspiration for Douglas's own first long…
Thirteen previously published articles study "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," medieval English Literature, the development of Arthurian literature, and Middle English romances. Contains a Japanese translation of the first two branches of…
Includes versions of the GP description of the Pardoner and lines 591-640 of PardT in normalized spelling, with a brief Introduction that identifies several indications that the Pardoner is gay.
Paravicini, Werner.
Adlig leben im 14. Jahrhundert: Weshalb sie fuhren. Die Preußenreisen des europäischen Adels, Part 3 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), pp. 138-44.
Part of Paravicini’s three-volume study of the crusades against Lithuania undertaken by the Teutonic order, focusing on literary backgrounds to the chivalric imagination underlying the crusades. Includes evidence of tensions between crusading and…
Lampert, Lisa.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
Lampert decenters Christianity and releases the study of Jews and Judaism from a "restricted economy of particularism." She shows how representations of Jews go beyond representations of the "Other" in a range of English texts by revealing…
Cox, Catherine S.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.
A study of "the interconnectedness of gender, epistemology, and poetics in Chaucer's texts," focusing on "idioms of gender that attend narrative protocols of reflexitivity and appropriation." Examines the linguistic, discursive, and sexual…
Hilles, Carroll.
New Medieval Literatures 4: 189-212, 2001.
Bokenham "strategically utilizes feminine piety" and his own "dullness" to express political dissent in a style that differs from the high rhetorical style of Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate. He rejects their "classicizing, aureate" tradition, initiating…
Tinkle, Theresa.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Despite its antifeminist core, medieval exegesis is not "universally misogynistic or patriarchal." Focusing on three historical moments--the age of Augustine, the twelfth century, and the age of Chaucer, including his fifteenth-century…
Crane, Susan.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Romance is the medieval genre that most clearly dramatizes gendered identity, focusing on "courtship, marriage, lineal concerns, primogeniture, and sexual maturation." Chaucer's KnT, WBT, SqT, FranT, and Th reflect and confront masculine identity…
Evans, Ruth.
In The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu, 2017. Relocated 2025 at https://opencanterburytales.lsusites.org/
Describes distinctions that derive from transgender politics and explores how the gender and sexual identities in SumPT--"largely constructed by and through its twin genres of antifraternal critique and fabliau"--"insinuate that friars are both…
Burger, Glenn.
Susanna Fein and David Raybin, eds. Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010), pp. 179-98.
Burger characterizes second-wave feminism as a precursor of gay and lesbian studies, arguing that queer theory desires and explores the past in particularized rather than universalized ways, in part to "trouble Foucault's epistemic break between the…
Hanna, N[atalie].
Dissertation Abstracts International C75.01 (2016): n.p.
Examines "the semantics and pragmatics of nouns that denote gender and social status in Chaucer's literature, e.g., "knyght," "lady," "leche," "wyf '," focusing on MerT, FranT, ABC, and TC, but addressing most of Chaucer's works.
Rogers, Janine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1998): 4420A, 1998.
Professional book production and circulation in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, including Chauceriana, present courtly models for gender, eventually affecting rural gentry. The Findern MS revises femininity, and the female voice can be…
Utz, Richard [J.]
Zygmunt Mazur and Richard Utz, eds. Homo Narrans: Texts and Essays in Honor of Jerome Klinkowitz (Krákow: Jagiellonian University Press), 2004, pp. 193-206.
Chaucer's male narrators and characters are obsessed with ideas of linear/finite time, progression, arrival, and teleology. His female characters either silently subscribe to the male obsession or are dominated by cyclical/monumental and transcendent…
Walker-Pelkey, Faye.
Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 2547A.
In contrast to the uniformity specified in LGWP, the legends themselves, when examined in light of the nominalist principle of particularized language, reveal widely differing heroines, not indistinguishable victims. ShT functions as pattern; CYT as…
Lopez, Alan.
New Views on Gender 5 (2000): 69-79. Fully accessible at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iusbgender/article/view/35631/38680; last accessed May 22, 2025.
Observes tensions between masculine, political responsibilities Troilus has to his state and feminized submissiveness to his "sovereyn" Criseyde, grounding these tensions in medieval critiques of courtly love and aligning Troilus's submission with…
Chaucer satirizes the anti-Semitism and sexual restrictiveness of the medieval church by presenting the serpent-Satan as a representation of Judaic reproduction denied the celibate Prioress. Rudat suggests the Prioress terminated an earlier unwanted…
Eaton connects various uses of the word "conscience" in Chaucer's works with the social classes of the characters with whom the word is associated and with gender differences such as the structuring of physical space.