A new companion to Chaucer

A new companion to Chaucer / edited by Peter Brown.

The extensively revised and expanded version of the acclaimed Companion to Chaucer An essential text for both established scholars and those seeking to expand their knowledge of Chaucer studies, A New Companion to Chaucer is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of Chaucer scholarship. Rigorous yet...

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Other Authors: Brown, Peter, 1948- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2019.
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 101.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400
To 1500
Literature and society > England > History > To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Civilization
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Intellectual life
Literature and society
England > Intellectual life > 1066-1485.
England > Civilization > 1066-1485.
England
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; The Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; The Idea of a Chaucer Companion; Students All; Designs on Chaucer; "I make for myself a picture of great detail"; Revising the Companion to Chaucer; Note; Chapter 1 Afterlives; Geoffrey Chaucer in Historical Time; Material Texts and Remediation; Criseyde's Afterlives; Global Appropriations and Living Chaucers; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 2 Auctorite; Textual Authority; Religious and Secular Authority; The House of Fame 2121-30; The Knight's Tale 2987-3074
  • NotesReferences and Further Reading; Chapter 3 Biography; Life, Works, and Lives; The House of Fame 644-60; The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women F328-34 and G254-76; Introduction to the Man of Law's Tale 46-64 and 77-80; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 4 Bodies; Humours; Heavens; Healthy Habits; Heroic Love; Pertelote's Purges (NPT 2923-39, 2942-9, 2955-66); Alisoun's Character (WBP 609-26, 697-706); Arcite's Fate (KnT 2684-91, 2743-60); Heroic Love and Troilus; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 5 Bohemia; Defacements; Bohemia in the Fourteenth Century
  • Anne of Bohemia and the Parliament of FowlsThe Legend of the Bohemian Amazons; Versions of Anne of Bohemia; Sacral Kingship; Chaucer and Bohemia; Bohemian Piety; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 6 Chivalry; Honor and Shame; The Role of the Church; Love of Women; The Literature of Chivalry; Tournaments; Rejecting Chivalry; Chaucer's Knight and Squire (GP 43-100); The Knight's Tale; Troilus and Criseyde II, 624-31; Ambiguities; "Thy gentillesse cometh fro God allone" (WBT 1162); Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 7 Comedy; Medieval Definitions of Comedy
  • Conventions of Medieval Comic TextsChaucer's Balade "To Rosemounde"; The Envoy of the Clerk's Tale (ClT 1177-1212); The Miller's Tale 3687-739; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 8 Emotion; The Language of Feeling; Medieval Theories of Emotion; Critical Approaches to Chaucer and Emotion; Feeling by the Book: The Book of the Duchess 291-415; Critical Feeling: The Legend of Good Women 2163-227; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 9 Ethnicity; Place and Race; Christian Constructions of Race and the Friar's Tale 1622; Christian Constructions of Jews
  • Jewish Bodies in Chaucer: Prioress's Tale 558-78Medieval Christian Constructions of Muslims; Color and Religious Difference in Chaucer: The Man of Law's Tale 351-7; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 10 Flemings; Flemish London; England and Flanders; Sex and Trade; Fashion, Music, and Dancing; Flemings in London; Anti-Flemish Violence; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 11 France; Equivocal Attitudes; The Influence of French Literature at Court; Jean Froissart and Guillaume de Machaut; Chaucer in France

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