Drimmer, Sonja.
Exemplaria 29.3 (2017): 175-94. 7 color illus.
Argues that medieval "media consciousness," despite the lack of "verbal declarations of such awareness," is evident in the text-image relations of the Chaucer portrait in manuscripts of Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," coining the term…
Crews, Michael Lynn.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017.
Locates a quotation from PardT in Cormac McCarthy's notes for his novel "Blood Meridian"; links McCarthy's penchant for "the stories-within-stories motif" to Chaucer; and identifies echoes of PardT in the old Mennonite episode of "Blood Meridian" and…
Berry, Craig A.
In Andrew Escobedo, ed. Edmund Spenser in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 246-53.
Describes the "audacity and intensity" of Spenser's debt to Chaucer, considering the later poet's archaisms, his allusions to and quotations of Chaucer (particularly in "The Faerie Queene"), and the importance of Chaucer to Spenser's English…
Uncovers the complex relationship between monumentality and print culture as it contributed to Chaucer's early modern reception in post-Reformation England.
Yeager, R. F.
In Miren Lacassagne, ed. Le rayonnement de la cour des premiers Valois à l'époque d'Eustache Deschamps (Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2017), pp. 69-79, 183-91.
Explores the influence of Eustache Deschamps on the development of non-musical fixed forms in the English lyric tradition, commenting on poems from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson D. 913; the poems of "Ch"; and works by Chaucer and John Gower,…
Star, Sarah.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 191-216.
Describes the career and works of late medieval English medical writer Henry Daniel, arguing that his views on "collaboration" between "learned and lay sources" are similar to Chaucer's, and that the two writers are also "connected through their…
Looks at Lydgate's Parisian poems with a focus on "Pilgrimage of the Life of Man." Aims to define and construct "virtual coteries" and identify connections between Lydgate's coteries and the poetry of Gower and Chaucer. Refers to Mel, ABC, Purse, and…
Olson, Glending.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 117 (2018): 185–211.
Proposes using a more philosophical reading of RvT to enhance understanding of Chaucer's "academic knowledge and his relationship with Ralph Strode." An academic joke in RvT relies on snubness and whiteness as stock examples of inseparable and…
Explores examples of "friendship, felicity or joy, love, fellowship, and 'compaignye' (company, companionship, community)" in Chaucer's works through a Neoplatonic lens. Focuses on "Chaucer's Boethianism" by offering perspectives on Chaucer's own…
Gastle, Brian.
In Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower (New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. 296-310.
Describes four aspects of the critical tradition of exploring relations between Gower's and Chaucer's poetry--"biography, common literary sources and analogues [especially in WBT, MLT, and Philomela in LGW], thematic issues, and…
Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, eds.
New York: Routledge, 2017.
Includes twenty-six essays by various authors that entail "comprehensive discussions of recent and current scholarship" on Gower and his works, arranged in three broad categories: working theories, material culture, and polyvocality. Each essay…
Galloway, Andrew.
In John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands, eds. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Chichester: Wiley, 2014), pp. 187-201.
Surveys texts by and about Ovid that Chaucer and Gower "might have used," arguing that the influence of Ovid was pervasive, complex, and crucial to the "careers and poetic self-fashioning" of both medieval poets, a model of poetic authority for them.…
Desmond, Marilyn.
In John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands, eds. A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), pp. 161-73.
Surveys the impact on medieval poetry of Ovid as a love poet, including comments on Chaucer's use of "Ars amatoria" in WBP, where Ovid's "erotic poetics" are "domesticated" and the reception of his poem reaches its "zenith." Central to "Chaucerian…
Davis, Rebecca.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Presents Chaucer's and Langland's representations of the natural world, reading "Langland's treatment of nature alongside Chaucer's as an expression of a continuous though diverse tradition of humanism." Chapter 1 focuses on nature in PF.
Kimmelman, Burt.
In R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, eds. Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), pp. 89-138.
Studies the development of "poetic self-assertions" and "authorship poetics" in late medieval poetry, concentrating on Guillaume de Machaut's influence on Chaucer in LGWP and on Christine de Pizan. Comments on the legacies of Dante, Petrarch, and…
Strakhov, Elizaveta.
In R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, eds. Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), pp. 139-64.
Considers Machaut's and Chaucer's uses of blue and green symbolism in relation to late medieval "armorial bearings disputes" to investigate the poets' concern with "issues surrounding the legibility of identity." Comments on color symbolism in SqT,…
Palmer, R. Burton.
In R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, eds. Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), pp. 271-96.
Reviews and extends arguments for recognizing the intertextual relations of Chaucer's LGW and the works of Guillaume de Machaut, emphasizing their explorations of the "poetics of authorship." Extends this notion to the fiction of Philip Roth and…
Burke, Linda.
In R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, eds. Machaut's Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017), pp. 192-216.
Reiterates traditional discussions of similarities between LGW and John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," develops recent arguments of the importance of Anne of Bohemia to both poems (emphasizing Gower's), and uses these connections and others to argue…
Palmer, R. Barton, and Burt Kimmelman, eds.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017.
Ten essays by various authors treat the impact and legacy of Guillaume de Machaut's works, especially "his judgment series" of poems, and the ways they influence writers from Chaucer and John Gower to Marcel Proust and Philip Roth. For four essays…
Burger, Glenn.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
Argues that the "invention" of the good wife in discourses of sacramental marriage, private devotion, and personal conduct "reconfigured how female embodiment was understood." Focuses on conduct texts and manuals written by men for women, including…
Warner, Lawrence.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Pushes back on assumptions that have been made about Adam Pinkhurst and homes in on narratives constructed by scholars such as Linne Mooney. By analyzing idiomatic and vernacular trends, responds to the cult of Pinkhurst as "Chaucer's Scribe" by…
Van Dyke, Carolynn.
Modern Philology 115 (2017): 1–30.
Examines manuscript rubrics and glosses that engage ideas of authorship, specifically those that cite an "auctor" or "aucteur" in manuscripts of the "Roman de la Rose," Machaut's "Judgment of the King of Navarre," TC, and CT. Gauges the kinds and…
