The Yale Companion to Chaucer

by Seth Lerer

• ISBN13: 9780300125979
• ISBN10: 0300125976
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-12-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This new collection of specially commissioned essays on Chaucer's poetry is a single-volume guide to the best and most inventive work in Chaucerian studies today. The first such book written with American undergraduate and graduate students in mind,The Yale Companion to Chaucerprovides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of current critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history. With close readings of major texts, the book offers ample material for studying philology, history, and textual criticism as they bear on Chaucer's work in particular and medieval literature in general. Both interpretation and information are presented, and each essay is accompanied by a detailed bibliography and guide to further study and research.

Author Biography

Seth Lerer is Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities and professor of English and comparative literature at Stanford University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
A Note on Editions and Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Contexts and Cultures
The Lives of Geoffrey Chaucer	p. 31
Chaucer as a European Writer	p. 55
Chaucer as an English Writer	p. 87
Chaucer and Rhetoric	p. 122
Major Works, Major Issues
The Dream Visions	p. 147
Lyrics and Short Poems	p. 179
Troilus and Criseyde	p. 213
The Canterbury Tales	p. 243
Critical Approaches and Afterlives
Chaucer's Influence and Reception	p. 297
Chaucer Criticism and Its Legacies	p. 324
Appendixes
Chronology: Major Dates and Events in Chaucer's Life and Times	p. 359
Guides to the Textual Study of Chaucer	p. 361
The Canterbury Tales: Order and Pattern	p. 363
Maps	p. 366
Bibliography	p. 371
List of Contributors	p. 403
Index	p. 405
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