A Companion to Chaucer

Description: Twenty-nine essays on the literary, social, political, and geographical contexts within which Chaucer produced his work, as well as his response to contemporary ideologies. Each essay includes a survey of existing scholarship in a given area, discussing key issues; an application of those issues to specific passages from Chaucer's works; and an annotated bibliography.; Contributors and topics are the following: "Afterlife," Carolyn Collette; "Authority," Andrew Galloway; "Bodies," Linda Ehrsam Voigts; "Chivalry," Derek Brewer; "Christian Ideologies," Nicholas Watson; "Comedy," Laura Kendrick; "Contemporary English Writers," James Simpson; "Crisis and Dissent," Alcuin Blamires; "France," Michael Hanly; "Games," Malcolm Andrew; "Genre," Caroline D. Eckhardt; "Geography and Travel," Scott D. Westrem; "Italy," David Wallace; "Language," David Burnley; "Life Histories," Janette Dillon; "London," Michael Hanrahan; "Love," Helen Phillips; "Modes of Representation," Edward Wheatley; "Narrative," Robert R. Edwards; "Other Thought-Worlds," Susanna Fein; "Pagan Survivals," John M. Fyler; "Personal Identity," Lynn Staley; "Science," Irma Taavitsainen; "Social Structures," Robert Swanson; "Style," John F. Plummer; "Texts," Tim William Machan; "Translation," Roger Ellis; "Visualizing," Sarah Stanbury; "Women," Nicky Hallett.

Chaucer Subjects: Background and General Criticism.; Chaucer's Life.; Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.