Chaucer Laboratory or Vaudeville House? John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert's Chaucer Project, and Their University of Chicago Assistants.

Author / Editor
Nolcken, Christina von.

Title
Chaucer Laboratory or Vaudeville House? John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert's Chaucer Project, and Their University of Chicago Assistants.

Published
Katherine E. Ellison, and Susan M. Kim, eds. Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy: The Networks of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), pp. 303-42.

Description
Examines archival records that pertain to the Chaucer Project (which produced "The Text of the Canterbury Tales" [1940]) to explore the history of the project, focusing on the work, working conditions, and attitudes of several scholars who assisted John Manly Matthews and Edith Rickert, including Mabel Dean, Helen McIntosh, Virginia Everett Leland, Ramona Bressie, Margaret Rickert, and many others.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations