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.
O'Neill, Maria.
Brian J. Worsfold, ed. Women Ageing Through Literature and Experience (Lleida and Catalunya, Spain: Department of English and Linguistics, University of Lleida, 2005), pp. 73-81.
O'Neill surveys Chaucer's attitudes toward age and gender in CT, with particular focus on WBPT. In CT, the "medieval, ageing Englishwoman as a sexual being emerges with . . . dignity and vitality."
Uses Chaucer's works, Mannyng's "Handlyng Sinne," and several Middle English romances to examine conversion as a process by which the self is redefined either in opposition to a dominant class or as a means of admission to it.
Pugh, Tison.
Studies in Philology 114 (2017): 473-96.
Argues that MerT is unified by its engagement with medieval debate tradition, evident in a series of five episodes that concern competing views on gender and marriage. Moreover, the "phantom debate" of the Merchant's "split consciousness" and the…
Johnston, Andrew James.
Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov, and Elisabeth Kempf, eds. Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Troilus and Cressida" (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 171-88.
Investigates two crucial scenes of reading in TC--Criseyde's reading with her attendants in Book 2 and Pandarus's voyeuristic reading of a romance in the consummation scene--finding in their contrasts two opposed models of reading: one that…
Harding, Wendy.
Bulletin des Anglicistes Médiévistes 64: 1-11, 2003.
By representing the narrator of CT first as a disembodied authority and then as a storyteller in the pilgrimage game, Chaucer explores the parameters of voice, gender, and authority. The perception of gender in speech is shown to be a social…
Textbook edition of GP with end-of-text notes, glossary, and dictionary of proper names, accompanied by an Introduction that addresses the role of GP in CT, as well as its art and "Inheritance." Also includes several appendixes: "The Poet and His…
French, W. H.
Modern Language Notes 76 (1961): 293-95.
Supports the reading of "hors" as plural in GP 1.74 on the grounds that "goode" in the same line is a plural form that "determines the number of the entire construction."
Mack, Peter, and Chris Walton, eds.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Textbook edition of GP. Includes glosses and discursive notes (at the back of the book) and discussion of approaches to the text: sources and analogues, characterization, assessment of theme and topic, and analysis of poetic technique. Also includes…
Andrejević, Ana M.
Proceedings of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Pristina 42.1 (2012): 405-15.
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta, Univerzitet u Prištini 42.1 (2012): 405-15.
Indicates Chaucer's mixture of genres in CT, and assesses the "inversion of normative genres and usage of multigeneric construction" in NPT to convey significant themes and in ManT to pose a disturbing "pseudo-moral." Includes an abstract in Serbian.
Cooper, Helen.
Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Poetics: Theory and Practice in Medieval English Literature (Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1991), pp. 83-103.
Examines the equation of political and poetic authority in the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries. Historical romance tends to legitimize political authority and to cite poetic authority, while the fabliau pretends to chronicle true occurences…
Dane, Joseph A.
Huntington Library Quarterly 48 (1985): 345-62.
A double reception was given Th in the eighteenth century. Dane agrees with Warton that Th is not a "grave heroic narrative" but a humorous tale. The burlesque Th is an eighteenth-century creation. Treats genre of Th and SqT and twentieth-century…
Kowalik, Barbara.
Maria Edelson, ed. Studies in Literature and Culture in Honour of Professor Irena Janicka-Świderska Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2002), pp. 100-110.
Increased concern with female characters in KnT distinguishes it from traditional epics, and its presentation of women and gender relationships embodies "evolutionary changes" in the romance genre. Nonetheless, Emily is imprisoned at the end "in yet…
Patterson, Lee.
Lee Patterson. Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture (Notre Dame, Id.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), pp. 198-214.
Considers Chaucer's understanding of "tragedy" in Bo, MkT, and TC, tracing this understanding to Dante's use of the term in his "Inferno," where it is affiliated with history. In TC, Chaucer chose to emulate Boccaccio's "Filostrato" because doing so…
Ferster, Judith.
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 179-98.
Ferster explores the importance of genre for understanding CT, a collection of different genres. Discusses how Chaucer stretches, plays with, and interrogates genre by combining features of genre and the expectations they create. Concentrates on the…
Despite the difficulties of comparing literature cross-culturally, CT and the "Heike Monogatari" are similar in their "middle" styles, their adaptability to parody, and their capacious allusions to "native and foreign literary studies."
Pakkala-Weckstrom, Mari.
Karind Aijmer and Britta Olinder, eds. Proceedings from the 8th Nordic Conference on English Studies (Goteborg: Goteborg University Department of English, 2003), pp. 121-36.
Pakkala-Weckstrom applies linguistic "politeness theory" to the use of pronouns as "forms of address in male/female dialogue" in MilT, MerT, ShT, ClT, Mel, WBT, and FranT. Usage is similar in the romances and religious tales but differs in the…
Stroud, Theodore A.
Modern Philology 72 (1974): 60-70.
Reviews two books about Chaucer: "Language of Chaucer's Poetry: An Appraisal of Verse, Style and Structure" by Norman E. Eliason; and "Disembodied Laughter: 'Troilus' and the Apotheosis Tradition" by John M. Steadman.
Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti, eds.
Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1988.
Fourteen articles by various hands. For five essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Genres, Themes, and Images in English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century under Alternative Title.
Folks, Cathalin Buhrmann.
Eilean Ni Cuilleanain and J.D. Pheifer, eds. Noble and Joyous Histories: English Romances, 1375-1650 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1993), pp. 59-85.
The "Gawain" poet and Chaucer (through the mediating Wife of Bath) modify conventional details of character, description, and action, producing protagonists who develop or who come to self-awareness in ways more complicated than elsewhere in the…
In TC, Chaucer uses not only sophisticated, upper-class materials but also lower-class matter that has "moved 'upward' into the most prestigious and learned layers of medieval discourse." This "gentrification" can best be seen in Chaucer's use of…
