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Constructing Chaucer
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 110.00This book examines the scholarly construction of Geoffrey Chaucer in different historical eras, and challenges long-standing assumptions to enhance the theoretical dialogue on Chaucer's historical reception. more...
In Search of 'Kynde Knowynge'
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 72.80Readers today no longer relish sustained allegorical narratives the way they did in the Middle Ages, when the art of other-speaking was as dominant in poetic discourse as it was elsewhere. Yet we live in an age which, following the postmodernist dictum that any sign can only refer to other signs, has declared all language liable to the... more...
Complete and Full with Numbers
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 86.80This book presents a major re-examination of the works of the fifteenth-century Scottish poet, Robert Henryson. Encompassing the full range of the poets work, Professor John MacQueen opens up previously unexplored areas of both Henrysons literary practice and his underlying moral and philosophical vision. MacQueen argues that numerology... more...
Transcultural English Studies
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 135.80What is most strikingly new about the transcultural is its sudden ubiquity. Following in the wake of previous concepts in cultural and literary studies such as creolization, hybridity, and syncretism, and signalling a family relationship to terms such as transnationality, translocality, and transmigration, transcultural terminology has... more...
Venus Owne Clerk
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 140.00Venus Owne Clerk: Chaucers Debt to the Confessio Amantis will appeal to all those who value a bit of integration of Chaucer and Gower studies. It develops the unusual theme that the Canterbury Tales were signally influenced by John Gowers Confessio Amantis , resulting in a set-up which is entirely different from the one... more...
Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 79.00Radical reinterpretation of Old English poetry and its relation to Anglo-Saxon thought and society. more...
Chaucer's Legendary Good Women
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 46.00A comprehensive account of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women. more...
Old English Biblical Verse
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 78.00An extended study of the Old Testament poems of the Junius collection as a group. more...
Editing Piers Plowman
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 44.00This book is an account of the editions of Piers Plowman which have appeared since 1550. more...
Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire
Cambridge University Press 1973; US$ 40.00This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. more...









