Studies in the Age of Chaucer

by Kiser, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780933784222
• ISBN10: 0933784228
• Edition: Annotated
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: New Chaucer Society

Table of Contents

ARTICLES
Proving Constant: Torture and The Man of Law's Tale	1	(40)
James Landman
Criseyde, Cassandre, and the Thebaid: Women and the Theban Subtext of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde	41	(32)
Catherine Sanok
Ethics and Interpretation: Reading Wills in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women	73	(28)
James Simpson
Meanings and Uses of Raptus in Chaucer's Time	101	(66)
Henry Ansgar Kelly
Unnoticed Extracts from Chaucer and Hoccleve: Huntington HM 144, Trinity College, Oxford D 29 and the Canterbury Tales	167	(34)
Kate Harris
``Chaucer's Chronicle,'' John Shirley, and the Canon of Chaucer's Shorter Poems	201	(18)
Julia Boffey
A. S. G. Edwards
REVIEWS
David Aers and Lynn Staley, The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture	219	(7)
Nicholas Watson
Ann. W. Astell, Chaucer and the Universe of Learning	226	(3)
Paul Beekman Taylor
Catherine Batt, ed., Essays on Thomas Hoccleve	229	(3)
Ruth Nisse
Martha Bayless Parody in the Middle Ages: The Latin Tradition	232	(5)
A. G. Rigg
Joyce Coleman, Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France	237	(3)
Richard Firth Green
Rita Copeland, ed., Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages	240	(3)
David Lawton
George Economou, trans., William Langland's Piers Plowman: The C Version: A Verse Translation	243	(3)
Miceal F. Vaughan
Huw M. Edwards, Dafydd ap Gwilym: Influences and Analogues	246	(3)
Andrew Welsh
Thomas J. Farrell, ed., Bakhtin and Medieval Voices	249	(7)
James J. Paxson
Judith Ferster, Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England	256	(3)
Derek Pearsall
Pamela Gradon and Anne Hudson, eds. English Wycliffite Sermons	259	(3)
Ruth Evans
Michaela Paasche Grudin, Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse	262	(3)
Mary F. Godfrey
Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds., Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History	265	(4)
Charles T. Wood
Ralph Hanna III, Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts, and Seth Lerer, ed., Literary History and the Challenge of Philology: The Legacy of Erich Auerbach	269	(8)
David Greetham
Iain Macleod Higgins, Writing East: The ``Travels'' of Sir John Mandeville	277	(4)
Sylvia Tomasch
Henry Ansgar Kelly, Chaucerian Tragedy	281	(2)
Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.
Burt Kimmelman, The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages	283	(5)
Amy W. Goodwin
Anne Laskaya, Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales	288	(3)
Laura L. Howes
Seth Lerer, ed., Reading from the Margins: Textual Studies, Chaucer, and Medieval Literature	291	(5)
Stephen Partridge
G. A. Lester, The Language of Old and Middle English Poetry	296	(2)
Thomas A. Bredehoft
June Hall McCash, ed., The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women	298	(2)
Kathleen Biddick
Ruth Morse, The Medieval Medea	300	(2)
R. F. Yeager
Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds., Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West	302	(3)
Mark D. Jordan
John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler, eds., Medieval Mothering	305	(3)
Elizabeth Archibald
O.S. Pickering, ed., Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry	308	(3)
John W. Conlee
Sandra Pierson Prior, The Fayre Formez of the Pearl Poet	311	(4)
Zacharias P. Thundy
Suzanne Reynolds, Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text	315	(3)
Martin Camargo
Peter Robinson, ed., Chaucer: The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM	318	(6)
Mark Allen
Joel T. Rosenthal, Old Age in Late Medieval England	324	(3)
James M. Dean
Piotr Sadowski, The Knight on His Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	327	(2)
Donna Crawford
M. C. Seymour, gen. ed., Authors of the Middle Ages: English Writers of the Late Middle Ages	329	(2)
Lister M. Matheson
Gale Sigal, Erotic Dawn Songs of the Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady	331	(3)
Keith Busby
Paul Beekman Taylor, Chaucer's Chain of Love	334	(2)
Richard J. Utz
N. S. Thompson, Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of the Decameron and The Canterbury Tales.	336	(4)
George D. Economou
Theresa Tinkle, Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry	340	(3)
Helen Phillips
David Williams, Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaval Thought and Literature	343	(4)
Paul E. Szarmach
BOOKS RECEIVED	347
AN ANNOTATED CHAUCER BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1996
Mark Allen, Bege K. Bower	355
Classifications	358	(3)
Abbreviations of Chaucer's Works	361	(3)
Periodical Abbreviations	364	(3)
Bibliographical Citations and Annotations	367	(66)
Author Index---Bibliography	433
Index	000