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Chaucer
An Oxford Guide

Edited by Steve Ellis

Price: £26.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925912-0
Publication date: 10 March 2005
668 pages, 14 illus., 246x189 mm

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Description

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.

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

Web site

1. Chaucer in Schools (UK) , Mark Ryan

2. Chaucer in Schools (USA) , Donna Dermond

3. Chaucer in Higher Education (UK) , Rosalind Field

4. Chaucer in Higher Education (USA) , Alan Baragona

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Steve Ellis, Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
Literary theory

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ChaucerAn Oxford Guide

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An Oxford Guide