Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Considers theoretical, ideological, and practical questions concerning the value and valuation of literature and literary studies, with recurrent attention to contemporary issues in editing, canonicity, interpretation, and institutional status,…
Matukhin, Max.
Ph.D. dissertation (Princeton University, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.08(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed February 1, 2025).
Explores how "false confessions and sermons" in late medieval literature "investigat[e] the boundaries between truthfulness and falsehood, literature and reality, the profane and the sacred." Includes discussion of PardPT.
Malcolm, A. V. Aylin.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Pennsylvania, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Abstract available via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed January 31, 2025).
"[O]ffers an interdisciplinary perspective on later medieval views of animals, focusing on the Latin, French, and English texts circulating in England." Includes assessment of "Chaucer's depictions of inarticulable grief and interspecies empathy" in…
Long, Mary Beth.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Explores how "latent Marian maternal elements" inform a range of late medieval texts, focusing on how the devotional ideal of "imitatio Mariae"--rooted in Mary's "inimitable biology" as virgin and mother--informs Marian imagery and echoes in Margery…
Kern-Stähler, Annette, and Elizabeth Robertson, eds.
Contains twenty-six essays by various authors on topics relating to the "wonder and mystery" of the five senses (and "Multisensoriality") in English literature, medieval to the present. The introduction by the editors describe the field of study, the…
Trigg, Stephanie.
Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 31-48.
Outlines various "cognitive and sensual contexts" that frame "face-gazing in literature" and analyzes the descriptions of male gaze at female faces in TC and BD, both "mediated by the complex ideology of courtly love," comparing them with discussion…
Saunders, Corinne.
Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 107-24.
Comments on medieval and modern understandings of hearing voices, then assesses the phenomenon in Middle English romances and mystical accounts. Demonstrates how in TC and BD Chaucer "extends romance motifs" to explore "the processes of the…
Flannery, Mary C.
Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 271-88.
Explores connections between the physiological sense of taste (especially sweetness) and the aesthetic sense of good (or bad) taste, emphasizing their ambivalence in medieval understanding and the need for discernment that such ambivalence entails.…
Karnes, Michelle.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Studies marvels, wonders, and human imagination in medieval natural philosophy and literature, especially romance and travel narratives of western European and Islamic communities. Refers to several of the CT and links aspects of FranT with "Sir…
Jansohn, Christa.
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 175 (2023): 290-309.
Describes aspects of late medieval celebrations--focusing on feasting--to provide context for celebratory scenes in Middle English literature: "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" compared with "Cleanness"; Chaucer's KnT, WBT, SqT, the GP description of…
Ten essays by various authors on topics in Middle English and Anglo-Norman studies, with an introduction by the editors and a comprehensive index. For three essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later…
Trigg, Stephanie.
Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson, eds. Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2022), pp. 25-46.
Explicates the shift from Criseyde's bright thoughts of love to cloudy ones in TC, II.764ff., part of a "broader pattern of sun and cloud imagery" in the poem. Uses cognition theory and resonances with Boethius's "Consolatio" to argue that the…
Taylor, Jamie.
Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson, eds. Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2022), pp. 3-24.
Articulates similarities and differences between dreaming and insomnia as devices in late medieval dream-vision prologues, following Emmanuel Levinas's suggestion that "the self-alienation experienced by the insomniac can be understood as a release…
Simpson, James.
Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson, eds. Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2022), pp. 201-21.
Considers WBPT as a "not yet" text, i.e., one that "points to a future resolution" without providing it. Rich in "represented reception" on the pilgrimage and in "contested reception" in manuscript glossing, critical response, and adaptation, the…
Hutton, Ronald.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
Surveys the origins and development of versions of the fairy queen and related figures in western tradition. Includes a brief description of Chaucer's contribution to this development in WBP, 860 ("The elf-queen") where he blends "the classic image…
Hardun, Katherine Jane.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of California, Riverside, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A85.07(E).
Examines the history and literature of Richard II "through a queer theoretical lens," including discussion of TC, Maidstone's "Concordia," Shakespeare's "Richard II "(and its performance history), and modern fiction. Explores the "cultural norm of…
Fisher, Matthew.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 45 (2023): 313-61.
Attributes the copying of British Library, MS Cotton Appendix XVI ("Statuta Angliae") and nineteen Chancery documents to Richard Sotheworth, whose will records the earliest known ownership of a CT manuscript. Uses these and related documents to…
Feinstein, Sandy
Wang, Bryan Shawn.
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 23 (2023): 349-61.
Reflects on the teaching of a two-instructor, interdisciplinary course in literature and molecular biology designed for undergraduate general education, emphasizing changes brought about by COVID-19 in the course's design, assignments, and subtending…
Ensley, Mimi.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Studies post-Reformation understandings and treatments of romance--a "fluid" genre--for the ways they disclose "subtle continuity" across the traditional divide between medieval and Renaissance. Focuses on resistance to erasure of the genre,…
Edwards. Jennifer C.
Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2022.
Introductory survey of the conditions and experiences of women in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, designed for pedagogical use. Includes chapters on Marriage, Motherhood, Royal and Noblewomen, Urban and Rural Women, Sex and Sexuality, and…
Drury Hall, Anne.
South Bend, Ind.: Saint Augustine's Press, 2023.
Reflects on reading and responding to "Great Books," offering appreciative descriptions of samples from Plato, Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Melville, and asserting their success in conveying moral philosophy artfully, despite the…
Dragu, Jacqueline.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Chicago, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (accessed January 31, 2025).
Discusses psychoanalytic aspects of melancholy and subjectivity in several medieval texts, including BD and PrT. The "logic of identification" in BD signals that "melancholia might be seen as more open-ended than a pathology constantly teetering on…
Dominick, Gina A.
Ph.D. dissertation (New York University, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International A 84.01(E).
Explores how texts such as Julian of Norwich's "A Revelation of Divine Love," CT, and Thomas Malory's "Morte Darthur" "unsettle the medieval aesthetic-ethical form of "formosa deformitas," or, the 'beautiful ugly,' " and "bring attention to the…
Davies, Daniel.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Pennsylvania, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International A83.02(E). Freely accessible at https://repository.upenn.edu/entities/publication/59a38ac4-5b08-41e6-a701-26a6f3939e86 (accessed January 30, 2025).
Argues that "the nascent art of international relations . . . among England, Scotland, and France, creates a heightened awareness of the connections between literary and political mediation central to the distinct textures of medieval wartime."…
Contzen, Eva von.
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 53 (2023) 597-622.
Focuses on three different approaches to CT, examines the ways that scholars have attempted to avoid ascribing intention to Chaucer, and concludes that "when engaging with Chaucer, critics need to embrace intention as a key generator in the…
