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Intersectional analysis of four character types in medieval romance. Includes discussion of the loathly lady, WBT, and its analogues, arguing that Chaucer's version offers a figure of power, ambiguous because we remain "unsure whether she will use…

Accepts that variants in manuscripts of TC provide evidence of Chaucer's revisions and studies a number of small changes that affect meter, style, and emphasis; cancellations or moving of stanzas have broader implications for Chaucer's…

Tormey examines metal and metalworking as symbols of economic forces shaping the development of epic form and subject matter. Discusses CT and Dante's "Inferno" as "proto-commercial travel narratives."

Summarizes the manuscript information pertinent to The Cook's Tale and The Squire's Tale, focusing on scribal confrontations with their fragmentary state, including continuations and, especially, gaps and notes. Evidence suggests that the notes and…

Considers the "non-lyric French inclusions" in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.20 as evidence of what "French meant to [John] Shirley" and what this indicates about fifteenth-century English reception of French literature.

Seventeen essays by various authors on topics ranging from the Middle English St. Francis to the Passion plays, the York Cycle, John Wycliff, "Piers Plowman," Gower, Margery Kempe, and other medieval writers and their literature. For two essays that…

Identifies where "[a]cross his writings . . . Chaucer treats mind, body, and affect in sophisticated ways that go far beyond convention," focusing particularly on lovelorn knights in BD, KnT, and TC, and swooning women in ClT, MLT, and LGW. Argues…

Contrasts the consummation scene of TC with its source in Boccaccio's "Filostrato," arguing that the changes produce a "far greater emotional intensity," largely because the narrative puts the reader through the process of partial fulfillment…

In KnT, Chaucer presents three conceptions of knighthood, each arising from individual desires that displace social responsibility. Arcite and Palamon's rivalry is based in mimetic desire for ontological being. Theseus arbitrates their rivalry by…

Makes the case that Boccaccio responds in the many trial scenes of the "Decameron" to contemporary concerns about verisimilitude in judicial proceedings. Claims that Boccaccio shifts in the role of judicial figures from mediators to determiners of…

Briefly mentions Chaucer in a discussion about the literary influences on Milton. John Lane--who continued Chaucer's SqT--may have helped to incite Milton's interest in chivalry and tournaments. Malory is also a likely influence, although never…

Discusses Milton's possible use of Chaucer's "Boece."

The fabliaux must be studied in terms of inversion--the world upside down--evoking the chaos of Dante's hell. They reflect Pauline and Augustinian dichotomies between the flesh and the spirit, the City of Man and the City of God.

Item not seen. A WorldCat record indicates that the illustrations are by H. C. McBeath.

Examines ageism and Chaucerian echoes in the BBC television adaptation of WBPT, commenting on the lack of concern with age in feminist studies, attitudes towards "cougardom" in the TV episode, and affiliations between middle age and the Middle Ages…

Eliot uses Chaucerian epigraphs as part of a narrative strategy that inscribes allegory in an apparently realistic text.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1961.

Discursive bibliography, divided into fourteen subsections: Early Middle English; Theory; Manuscript and Technical Studies; Religious Writing; Secular Prose; Secular Verse; "Piers Plowman"; Gower; Old Scots; Drama; "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight";…

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1954 divided into four sections: General, CT, TC, and Other Works.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1955 divided into four sections: General, CT, TC, and Other Works.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1956.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1957.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1958.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1959.

A discursive review of Chaucerian scholarship and research published in 1960.