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: pronunciation, morphology, metre / 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 -- The classical background / Helen Cooper -- The English background / Wendy Scase -- The French background / Helen Phillips -- The Italian background / Nick Havely -- The Bible / Valerie Edden -- Modern Chaucer criticism / Elizabeth Robertson -- Feminisms / Gail Ashton -- The carnivalesque / Marion Turner -- Postmodernism / Barry Windeatt -- New historicism / Sylvia Federico -- Queer theory / Glenn Burger -- Postcolonialism / Jeffrey J. Cohen -- Psychoanalytic criticism / Patricia Clare Ingham -- Editing Chaucer / Elizabeth Scala -- Reception: fifteenth to seventeenth centuries / John J. Thompson -- Reception: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / David Matthews -- Reception: twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Stephanie Trigg -- Translations / Malcolm Andrew -- Chaucer in performance / Kevin J. Harty -- Chaucer and his guides / Peter Brown -- Printed resources / Mark Allen -- Electronic resources / Philippa Semper.
Summary:
"This text combines general essays and contextual information with detailed readings of specific Chaucerian texts. The volume is divided into five parts - 'Historical Contexts', 'Literary Contexts', 'Readings', 'Afterlife' and 'Study Resources'. Each chaper includes a Guide to Further Reading and there is a Chronology at the end of the volume" --Provided by publisher.
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