Chaucer : An Oxford Guide

Description: Thirty-six essays on individual topics, plus an introduction (by Ellis) and a postscript (Julian Wasserman). Part 1 (historical contexts): Chaucer's life (Ruth Evans), society and politics (S. H. Rigby), nationhood (Ardis Butterfield), London (C. David Benson), religion (Jim Rhodes), chivalry (Mark Sherman), literacy and literary production (Stephen Penn), Chaucer's language (Donka Minkova), philosophy (Richard Utz), science (J. A. Tasioulas), visual culture (David Griffith), sexuality (Alcuin Blamires), identity and subjecthood (John M. Ganim), love and marriage (Bernard O'Donoghue). Part 2 (literary contexts): classical (Helen Cooper), English (Wendy Scase), French (Helen Phillips), Italian (Nick Havely), biblical (Valerie Edden).; Part 3 (readings): modern criticism (Elizabeth Robertson), feminisms (Gail Ashton), carnivalesque (Marion Turner), postmodernism (Barry Windeatt), new historicism (Sylvia Federico), queer theory (Glenn Burger), postcolonialism (Jeffery J. Cohen), psychoanalytic criticism (Patricia Clare Ingham). Part 4 (reception): editing (Elizabeth Scala), 1400-1700 (John J. Thompson), 1700-1900 (David Matthews), 1900-present (Stephanie Trigg), translations (Malcolm Andrew), performance (Kevin J. Harty), guides (Peter Brown). Part 5 (study resources): printed (Mark Allen), electronic (Philippa Semper).

Chaucer Subjects: Background and General Criticism.; Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference.