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Travis, Peter W.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 151-65.
Discusses FranT and its inclusion of the "sursanure", the superficially healed wound that nevertheless continues to fester. Suggests that this "sursanure" is "an exemplary Jamesonian symptom, the complex layerings of which invite readers to prise…

Crocker, Holly A.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 136-50.
Argues that ClT offers a view of what it means to be human, and that Chaucer's view differs significantly from Petrarch’s presentation, in his translation of Boccaccio's Griselda story in the "Decameron," of Walter's cruelty and Griselda's patience…

Scala, Elizabeth.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 105-20.
Explains how the Wife of Bath dominates not only her own material in WBPT, but also CT as a whole. Discusses generic expectations for the Wife and her handling of biblical and classical material, to demonstrate that she represents "an irreducibly…

Sanok, Catherine.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 89-104.
Traces several interpretative concerns raised by MLT and demonstrates how the tale "has much to teach us about the layered, multipart narrative of project" of CT. Discusses "gender and religious difference," the secular and the sacred, the…

Nolan, Maura.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 73-88.
Offers a "step by step" reading of MilT "as it unfolds its argument.: Focuses on the crafting of the fabliau that refers to common elements of the genre and to Chaucer’s specific context. Argues that the "artful carelessness of the Miller" is an…

Miller, Mark.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 59-72.
Accounts for the "strangeness" of KnT, cataloguing various theoretical and interpretative approaches, beginning with Charles Muscatine's scholarly contributions and ending with Elizabeth Scala's "Desire in the Canterbury Tales." Links each of these…

Justice, Steven.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 45-58.
Surveys approaches to reception and interpretation of GP. Reappraises GP’s incompleteness as a symbol for the incompleteness of memory, establishing the beginning of CT as a kind of machinery that "set[s] the roadside drama in motion once again."

Turner, Marion.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 1–20.
Emphasizes Chaucer’s development of form in CT. Demonstrates that Chaucer’s experiments with form in CT and other works, including TC, are traced to origins in Boccaccio's works, and argues for a connection between these formal experiments and…

Raybin, David.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 244-49.
Reviews personal experiences of helping secondary teachers learn how to approach and teach Chaucer. Offers both a summary of the necessity of this kind of outreach and the results of these types of interactions.

Matthews, David.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 233-37.
Discusses how professors can help students approach difficult texts such as CT, whether by helping students choose good translations or by sharing methods with non-medievalists, in particular modernists, who also confront hard-to-read.
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Ingham, Patricia Clare, and Anthony Bale.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 218-31.
Discusses the many frustrated or incomplete endings in the tales of CT, and argues that "Chaucer's formal work with endings demonstrates all the many ways that things might remain unresolved." Traces endings from several different tales, including…

Grady, Frank.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 205-17.
Discusses the "narrowness" of modern views of Chaucer and CT, and argues that this posture hides the range of Chaucer’s verse, which includes not only beast fables and fabliaux, but also saints’ lives and penitential discourse.

Evans, Ruth.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 238-43.
Discusses public-facing writing about Chaucer and his texts and argues that "this writing's engagement with contemporary politics speaks to our and our students' experiences, and is already changing the direction of both classroom practice and…

Coley, David K.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 121-35.
Reappraises FrT and SumT and acknowledges the professional and personal animosity at the root of the tellers’ relationship to each other. Argues for a wider sense of that relationship between the tales and their tellers, contending that this…

Trigg, Stephanie.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 250-54.
Traces the problem of compensation and the rationale for dedicating funds to the study of Chaucer. Offers a case study of how a previous attempt at funding worked in 2010 in Australia when the Centre for the History of Emotions was awarded funding by…

Horobin, Simon.   Frank Grady, ed. The Cambridge Companion to "The Canterbury Tales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 21-44
Surveys extant manuscripts of CT, including collections that include standalone tales. Discusses the difference in manuscript presentation and frequency of the tales, arguing that earlier manuscript production and circulation often privileged those…

Grady, Franks, ed.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Includes nineteen contributions that analyze critical histories and reappraisals of specific tales and their contexts. For individual essays, search for Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales under Alternative Title.

Hinnie, Lucy R.   Chaucer Review 55, no. 4 (2020): 484-99.
Traces how "Chaucer is invoked and"utilized in the 1568 Bannatyne Manuscript,” suggesting that the manuscript participates in the "querelle des femmes" and "interrogates the idea that Chaucer becomes a ‘straw man’ for the writers included in…

Zhang, Lian.   Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 193-95
Focuses on early scholarship and translations of Chaucer in China connected with the "New Culture Movement," which worked to effect "social modernization" by "importing western literary forms and subjects." Emphasizes how Zuoren’s translation of…

Zhang, Lian.   American Notes and Queries 32, no. 2 (2019): 78–79.
Reports that two Taiwanese "translations" of CT (by fabricated translators) were actually reprints/adaptations of Fang Zhong's translation from mainland China.

Zhang, Lian.   Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 190-92.
Contends that Chaucer made his debut in China in the form of short excerpts of his poetry and "occasional pieces on language and culture" that appeared between 1878 and 1939 in British and American newspapers based in Shanghai.

Zhang, Lian.   Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 202-4.
Describes the first printings of Chaucer's works in China, during the Republican period (1912–1949). All are portions of CT translated into Chinese from modern English adaptations for children, providing for children and adults alike contact with…

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…

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."

Marshall, Simone Celine.   Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 90-91.
Describes scholarly inattention to the Middle English texts of KnT, NPT, WBT, and The Flower and the Leaf in John Dryden's "Fables Ancient and Modern" (1700) "slightly edited" from Thomas Speght's 1598 edition. Observes that the texts are "the…
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