Chaucer: An Oxford Guide

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-925912-0
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1501 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Suitable for all undergraduates studying Chaucer. Also suitable for the general reader looking for a comprehensive guide to Chaucer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellis, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Editor's Introduction

- Part I

- Historical Contexts

- 1: Ruth Evans: Chaucer's Life

- 2: S. H. Rigby: Society and Politics

- 3: Ardis Butterfield: Nationhood

- 4: C. David Benson: London

- 5: Jim Rhodes: Religion

- 6: Mark Sherman: Chivalry

- 7: Stephen Penn: Literacy and Literary Production

- 8: Donka Minkova: Language: Phonology, Morphology, Metre

- 9: Richard Utz: Philosophy

- 10: Jacqueline Tasioulas: Science

- 11: David Griffith: Visual Culture

- 12: Alcuin Blamires: Sexuality

- 13: John Ganim: Identity and Subjecthood

- 14: Bernard O'Donoghue: Love and Marriage

- Part 2

- Literary Contexts

- 15: Helen Cooper: The Classical Background

- 16: Wendy Scase: The English Background

- 17: Helen Phillips: The French Background

- 18: Nick Havely: The Italian Background

- 19: Valerie Edden: The Bible

- Part 3

- Readings

- 20: Elizabeth Robertson: Earlier 20th Century Criticism

- 21: Gail Ashton: Feminisms

- 22: Marion Turner: The Carnivalesque

- 23: Barry Windeatt: Postmodernism

- 24: Sylvia Federico: New Historicism

- 25: Glenn Burger: Queer Theory

- 26: Jeffrey Cohen: Postcolonial Criticism

- 27: Patricia Ingham: Psychoanalytic Criticism

- Part 4

- Afterlife

- 28: Elizabeth Scala: Editing Chaucer

- 29: John Thompson: Reception, 15th-17th Centuries

- 30: David Matthews: Reception, 18th-19th Centuries

- 31: Stephanie Trigg: Reception, 20th Century

- 32: Malcolm Andrew: Translations

- 33: Kevin J. Harty: Chaucer in Performance

- 34: Julian Wasserman: Chaucer Today

- 35: Peter Brown: Chaucer and his Guides

- Part 5

- Study Resources

- 36: Mark Allen: Printed Study Resources

- 37: Philippa Semper: Electronic Study Resources

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Ellis is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature. Publications on Chaucer include: Geoffrey Chaucer, Writers and their Work (1996), Chaucer: the 'Canterbury Tales', (Longman Critical Readers, 1998) and Chaucer At Large: the Poet in the Modern Imagination (2000).