The most comprehensive guide to Chaucer's work available, this volume features thirty-seven specially commissioned chapters by an international team of esteemed contributors. Offering work from both academics with long-standing reputations and newer voices in the field, it combines general essays that provide background and contextual information with detailed readings of specific Chaucerian texts. The book devotes an entire section to Chaucer's "afterlife," which considers his reputation in later periods, his influence on later writers, and his presence in modern and contemporary culture. Guides to further reading for each chapter and a chronology are also included.
Steve Ellis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature. Publications on Chaucer include: Geoffrey Chaucer, Writers and their Work (1996), Chaucer: the 'Canterbury Tales', (Longman Critical Readers, 1998) and Chaucer At Large: the Poet in the Modern Imagination (2000).
Show moreThe most comprehensive guide to Chaucer's work available, this volume features thirty-seven specially commissioned chapters by an international team of esteemed contributors. Offering work from both academics with long-standing reputations and newer voices in the field, it combines general essays that provide background and contextual information with detailed readings of specific Chaucerian texts. The book devotes an entire section to Chaucer's "afterlife," which considers his reputation in later periods, his influence on later writers, and his presence in modern and contemporary culture. Guides to further reading for each chapter and a chronology are also included.
Steve Ellis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature. Publications on Chaucer include: Geoffrey Chaucer, Writers and their Work (1996), Chaucer: the 'Canterbury Tales', (Longman Critical Readers, 1998) and Chaucer At Large: the Poet in the Modern Imagination (2000).
Show moreSteve Ellis: Editor's Introduction
Part I
Historical Contexts
1: Ruth Evans: Chaucer's Life
2: S. H. Rigby: Society and Politics
3: Ardis Butterfield: Nationhood
4: C. David Benson: London
5: Jim Rhodes: Religion
6: Mark Sherman: Chivalry
7: Stephen Penn: Literacy and Literary Production
8: Donka Minkova: Language: Phonology, Morphology, Metre
9: Richard Utz: Philosophy
10: Jacqueline Tasioulas: Science
11: David Griffith: Visual Culture
12: Alcuin Blamires: Sexuality
13: John Ganim: Identity and Subjecthood
14: Bernard O'Donoghue: Love and Marriage
Part 2
Literary Contexts
15: Helen Cooper: The Classical Background
16: Wendy Scase: The English Background
17: Helen Phillips: The French Background
18: Nick Havely: The Italian Background
19: Valerie Edden: The Bible
Part 3
Readings
20: Elizabeth Robertson: Earlier 20th Century Criticism
21: Gail Ashton: Feminisms
22: Marion Turner: The Carnivalesque
23: Barry Windeatt: Postmodernism
24: Sylvia Federico: New Historicism
25: Glenn Burger: Queer Theory
26: Jeffrey Cohen: Postcolonial Criticism
27: Patricia Ingham: Psychoanalytic Criticism
Part 4
Afterlife
28: Elizabeth Scala: Editing Chaucer
29: John Thompson: Reception, 15th-17th Centuries
30: David Matthews: Reception, 18th-19th Centuries
31: Stephanie Trigg: Reception, 20th Century
32: Malcolm Andrew: Translations
33: Kevin J. Harty: Chaucer in Performance
34: Julian Wasserman: Chaucer Today
35: Peter Brown: Chaucer and his Guides
Part 5
Study Resources
36: Mark Allen: Printed Study Resources
37: Philippa Semper: Electronic Study Resources
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Steve Ellis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature. Publications on Chaucer include: Geoffrey Chaucer, Writers and their Work (1996), Chaucer: the 'Canterbury Tales', (Longman Critical Readers, 1998) and Chaucer At Large: the Poet in the Modern Imagination (2000).
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