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Chaucer
An Oxford Guide
Steve Ellis
668 pages
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14 halftones, 7 tables
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246x189mm
978-0-19-925912-0
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Paperback
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10 March 2005
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- Much more comprehensive than any of its competitors
- Combines chapters offering contextual information with detailed readings of particular Chaucerian texts
- Includes 37 newly commissioned chapters from an international team of scholars, combining figures with long-established reputations and younger cutting-edge academics
- There is an entire section devoted to Chaucer's 'Afterlife', which considers his reputation in later periods and influence on later writers, as well as his presence in modern and contemporary culture
- The volume is accompanied by a web site with four new chapters on teaching and learning Chaucer as well as chapter-by-chapter weblinks.
This book is the most comprehensive guide to Chaucer's work and the history of its reception available. It comprises 37 specially commissioned chapters by an outstanding team of contemporary Chaucer scholars and combines general essays offering background 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.
The Guide is accompanied by a companion web site which includes four additional contributions for teachers and lecturers on teaching and learning issues related to Chaucer.
Readership: Suitable for all undergraduates studying Chaucer. Also suitable for the general reader looking for a comprehensive guide to Chaucer.
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Steve Ellis Contributors:
Dr Ruth Evans, University of Stirling
Dr Stephen Rigby, University of Manchester
Dr Ardis Butterfield, University College London
Professor C David Benson, University of Connecticut
Professor Jim Rhodes, Southern Connecticut State University
Professor Mark Sherman, Rhode Island School of Design
Dr Stephen Penn, University of Stirling
Professor Donka Minkova, UCLA
Professor Richard Utz, University of Northern Iowa
Dr Jacqueline Tasioulas, Newnham College, Cambridge
Dr David Griffith, University of
Birmingham
Mr Alcuin Blamires, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Professor John Ganim, University of California
Mr Bernard O'Donoghue, Wadham College, Oxford
Professor Helen Cooper, University College, Oxford
Professor Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham
Professor Helen Phillips, University of Liverpool
Dr Nick Havely, University of York
Dr Valerie Edden, University of Birmingham
Professor Elizabeth Robertson, University of Colorado
Dr Gail Ashton, University of Manchester
Dr Marion Turner, Kings College London
Professor Barry Windeat, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Dr Sylvia Federico, Bates College
Professor Glenn
Burger, Queens College, CUNY
Professor Jeffrey Cohen, George Washington University
Professor Patricia Ingham, Indiana University
Professor Elizabeth Scala, University of Texas at Austin
Dr John Thompson, Queen's University, Belfast
Professor David Matthews, University of Newcastle, NSW
Professor Stephanie Trigg, University of Melbourne
Professor Malcolm Andrew, Queen's University, Belfast
Professor Kevin J Harty, La Salle University
Professor Peter Brown, University of Kent
Professor Mark Allen, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dr Philippa Semper, University of Birmingham
Professor Julian Wasserman, Loyola University
Professor Alan
Baragona, Virginia Military Institute
Ms Donna Dermond, Lewis and Clark College, Portland Oregon
Dr Rosalind Field, Royal Holloway, University of London
Mr Mark Ryan, King Edward VI College, Stourbridge
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Steve 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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