Chaucer - An Oxford Guide
Chaucer - An Oxford Guide
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.
Contents
Part 1. Historical Contexts
1. Chaucer`s Life , Ruth Evans
2. Society and Politics , S.H. Rigby
3. Nationhood , Ardis Butterfield
4. London , C. David Benson
5. Religion , Jim Rhodes
6. Chivalry , Mark Sherman
7. Literacy and Literary Production , Stephen Penn
8. Language: Phonology, Morphology, Meter , Donka Minkova
9. Philosophy , Richard Utz
10. Science , Jacqueline Tasioulas
11. Visual Culture , David Griffith
12. Sexuality , Alcuin Blamires
13. Identity and Subjecthood , John Ganim
14. Love and Marriage , Bernard O`Donoghue
Part 2. Literary Contexts
15. The Classical Background , Helen Cooper
16. The English Background , Wendy Scase
17. The French Background , Helen Phillips
18. The Italian Background , Nick Havely
19. The Bible , Valerie Edden
Part 3. Readings
20. Earlier 20th-Century Criticism , Elizabeth Robertson
21. Feminisms , Gail Ashton
22. The Carnivalesque , Marion Turner
23. Postmodernism , Barry Windeatt
24. New Historicism , Sylvia Federico
25. Queer Theory , Glenn Burger
26. Postcolonial Criticism , Jeffrey Cohen
27. Psychoanalytic Criticism , Patricia Ingham
Part 4. Afterlife
28. Editing Chaucer , Elizabeth Scala
29. Reception, 15th-17th Centuries , John Thompson
30. Reception, 18th-19th Centuries , David Matthews
31. Reception, 20th Century , Stephanie Trigg
32. Translations , Malcolm Andrew
33. Chaucer in Performance , Kevin J. Harty
34. Chaucer Today , Julian Wasserman
35. Chaucer and His Guides , Peter Brown
Part 5. Study Resources
36. Printed Study Resources , Mark Allen
37. Electronic Study Resources , Philippa Semper