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John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 36.00Inspired by the example of Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated the great political questions of his time in his poetry, prose and translations. Maura Nolan offers a major re-interpretation of Lydgate's work, his relationship to Chaucer, and his central role in the developing literary culture of the fifteenth century. more...
An Introduction to Literary Studies
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 24.95An Introduction to Literary Studies provides the beginner with an accessible and comprehensive survey of literature. Systematically taking in theory, genre and literary history, Klarer provides easy to understand descriptions of a variety of approaches to texts. This invaluable guide includes sections on: fiction poetry drama film ... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 25.00This revised edition of The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is based on the first edition which has become a classic in Chaucer studies. Material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in Chaucer studies. more...
Teaching Chaucer
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 34.00This volume of essays offers innovations in teaching Chaucer in higher education. The projects explored in this study focus on a student-centred, active learning designed to enhance independent research skills and critical thinking. These studies also seek to establish conversations - between teachers and learners, and students and their texts. more...
Chaucer's Visions of Manhood
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary. more...
Mythographic Chaucer
University of Minnesota Press 1995; US$ 72.00Jane Chance reveals how the concealment of embarrassing secrets often sexual in nature and the burden of political alliances and strategies?what might together be termed sexual politics?motivated Chaucer in much of his work. Firmly placing Chaucer in the cultural politics of his time, she shows how he manipulated the mythographic and textual conventions... more...
Chaucer at Large
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 35.00In this learned, lively, and wide-ranging book, Steve Ellis conducts us on a tour of the appearances that the greatest writer of Middle English has made throughout English-speaking culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Surveying the uses to which Chaucer has been put in modern times, Ellis presents a compelling picture that goes beyond... more...
Book of the Incipit
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 40.00In the first book to examine one of the most peculiar features of one of the greatest and most perplexing poems of England?s late Middle Ages?the successive attempts of Piers Plowman to begin, and to keep beginning?D. Vance Smith compels us to rethink beginning, as concept and practice, in both medieval and contemporary terms. more...
Congenial Souls
University of Minnesota Press 1997; US$ 82.50John Dryden claimed to share a kindred spirit, a congenial soul, with Geoffrey Chaucer, and he was not alone. Reading critics reading Chaucer, Stephanie Trigg makes us privy to the special communities-modeled on the pilgrimage to Canterbury-that rose up around the author as commentators through the ages sought spiritual or emotional intimacy with him.... more...
A Concise Companion to Chaucer
Wiley 2008; US$ 79.95This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer’s major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers. Subsequent sections focus on Chaucer’s major works –... more...









