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Steve
Ellis.
Chaucer:
An Oxford Guide.
Oxford
U.P., 2005.
246mm x
189mm.
668
pages, 14 halftones, 7 tables.
Publisher's
recommended price
Paperback
ISBN 0199259127, £21.99
A
sample of this book is available in PDF format.
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:
Steve Ellis: 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.
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