Edwards, Robert R.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017.
Investigates the rhetorical and creative potentials of the idea of authorship as it developed in medieval English literature and established the basis of authorial "prestige and power" for future literary tradition. Individual chapters assess works…
Chism, Christine.
In Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds. A Companion to British Literature. Vol. I, Medieval Literature 700–1450 (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 130-45.
Surveys the meanings, origins, and theories of courtly love, asking how it "works" in medieval texts, what light it can "cast upon medieval cultural practices, and why it comes to matter." Includes discussion of secrecy in TC, a text that animates…
Turner, Marion.
In Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds. A Companion to British Literature. Vol. I, Medieval Literature 700–1450 (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 146-60.
Argues that Chaucer's works are "far more ambivalent and less polemical about revolt" than earlier texts or contemporary ones. Identifies changes in historical understanding of "revolution" as a concept, and examines MkT, where revolt is part of an…
Ganim, John C.
In Robert DeMaria Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds. A Companion to British Literature. Vol. I, Medieval Literature 700–1450 (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 202-14.
Explores how aspects of Chaucer's works reflect Britishness, Englishness, internationalism, and cosmopolitanism--a "potentially conflicted and unresolved matrix of possibilities" (p. 213). Identifies links and resonances between Chaucer's narratives…
DeMaria, Robert, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher, eds.
Chichester: Wiley, 2014.
lxix, 458 pp.
Includes twenty-six essays by individual authors that survey a range of issues in understanding the concept of "British literature" in the medieval period, considering history, politics, modes of production, literary forms, reception, religion,…
Dearnley, Elizabeth.
Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2016.
Explores "the practice of translation from French into English in medieval England, and how the translators themselves viewed their task," including discussion of LGWP as Chaucer's "self-aware, playful" analysis of the factors complicating…
Cushing, Ian.
Language and Literature 27.4 (2018): 271-85
Argues that training in stylistics has benefits for teachers, putting forward a pattern for what a training course might look like. Chaucer is invoked as a subject of study by a student respondent.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
An extended essay in "thinking beyond anthropocentrality" by appreciating "lithic" ontology and "geophilia" ("geology without dispassion"), an example of posthumanist, object-oriented consideration that seeks to dislodge assumptions about…
Weston, Lisa M. C.
In Albrecht Classen, ed. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 507-22.
Suggests that magic--specifically "image magic"--and poetics were interconnected for Chaucer and his original audience. Focuses on FranT, rhetoric, ekphrasis, and other "conjunctions of magic and rhetoric" in Chaucer's writings to reflect "the…
Pigg, Daniel F.
In Albrecht Classen, ed. Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology (Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017), pp. 489-506.
Comments on the "shadowy slippage" between science and magic in FranT and the deceptive practices evident in CYPT suggesting that "Chaucer explored magic and science" in order to distinguish between "phenomena that can be controlled" and those that…
Classen, Albrecht, ed.
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017.
Twenty-five essays by various authors on a wide array of topics. For two essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for Magic and Magicians in the Middle and the Early Modern Times under Alternative Title.
Cherewatuk, Karen, and Carson Koepke.
Chaucer Review 53.4 (2018): 449-84.
Explores the cultural ties between the Anglican Church on the American frontier and the Church of England through Elizabeth Whipple's Chaucer portrait.
Bryson, Michael, and Arpi Movsesian.
[Cambridge]: Open Books, 2017.
Surveys depictions of love, from the Bible to English Renaissance literature, exploring poetic representations of love and the effects of efforts to sublimate or suppress it. The section on Chaucer (pp. 280-94), labeled "Post-Fin'amor English…
Braswell, Mary Flowers.
Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2016
New York: Routledge, 2017.
A critical biography of Haweis that emphasizes her work as a Chaucer scholar, critic, editor, and illustrator, explaining her accomplishments in relation to the better-known Chaucerians of the nineteenth century and exploring why her influence is not…
Explores "varieties of the medieval unspeakable," from ineffability and mysticism to same-sex eroticism, in Old and Middle English literary tradition, employing an analytical method adapted from Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Giorgio Agamben,…
Barron, Caroline.
In Linda Clark and Elizabeth Danbury, eds. "A Verray Parfit Praktisour": Essays Presented to Carole Rawcliffe (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017), pp. 141-51.
Questions why there was "no great belfry housing a public clock in medieval London," arguing that something similar was raised in the 1350s at the parish church of St. Pancras in Soper Lane. Includes one reference to Chaucer: the cock crow rather…
Analyzes parallel sections of text from William Caxton's two editions of CT set by the same compositor—Mel and ParsT, NPT and ManT—comparing practices in prose tales and verse tales, and also comparing the practices of the compositor of Richard…
Rudd, Gillian.
In Greg Garrard, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 27-39.
Comments on forerunners of ecocritical thinking in medieval literature, and explores the connotations of "green" (often in contrast with "blue") in Wom Unc, SqT, FrT, WBT, and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," arguing that medieval usage reflects a…
Niebrzydowski, Sue.
In Sarah Carpenter, Pamela M. King, Meg Twycross, and Greg Walker, eds. "The best pairt of our play": Essays Presented to John J. McGavin, Part II (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017), pp. 38-56.
Describes the "the provenance, codicology, sources, and performance possibilities" of the early modern Welsh play "Troelus a Chresyd," exploring its relations with TC, Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid," and Renaissance dramatic versions of…
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 241-60.
Analyzes Chaucer's presentation of speech and thought in TC and seeks to show the way the "conceptual blending" of different subjects occurs in it.
Iwakuni, Tomoko.
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 79-93.
Closely compares the opening portion of Rom with its French source and points out that Chaucer's translations of verb tenses are faithful to the original French text. Suggests Chaucer may have attempted to express a combination of the preterit and…
Sasamoto, Hisayuki.
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 319-33.
Focuses on how ClT differs from its two sources, Petrarch's "Historia Griseldis" and its anonymous French translation "Le livre Griseldis," and argues that Chaucer adds his original expression of the characters' emotion so as to encourage the…
Zhou, Yue.
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 375-90.
Discusses adjectives employed to modify knightly characters in TC, GP, KnT, Th, BD, and Anel.
Ohno, Hideshi.
In Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 261-75.
Investigates the difference in use and function between the "be" + "lief" and the "have" + "lief" constructions, and between these constructions and "like" and "list" in Chaucer's works.
Contains essays on Chaucer's use of language, speech, and tone. For essays that pertain to Chaucer, search for The Pleasure of English Language and Literature under Alternative Title.
