Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.
Table des matières
List of Illustrations viii
The Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xv
Abbreviations of Chaucer’s Works xvi
The Idea of a Chaucer Companion 1
Peter Brown
1 Afterlife 8
Carolyn Collette
2 Authority 23
Andrew Galloway
3 Bodies 40
Linda Ehrsam Voigts
4 Chivalry 58
Derek Brewer
5 Christian Ideologies 75
Nicholas Watson
6 Comedy 90
Laura Kendrick
7 Contemporary English Writers 114
James Simpson
8 Crisis and Dissent 133
Alcuin Blamires
9 France 149
Michael Hanly
10 Games 167
Malcolm Andrew
11 Genre 180
Caroline D. Eckhardt
12 Geography and Travel 195
Scott D. Westrem
13 Italy 218
David Wallace
14 Language 235
David Burnley
15 Life Histories 251
Janette Dillon
16 London 266
Michael Hanrahan
17 Love 281
Helen Phillips
18 Modes of Representation 296
Edward Wheatley
19 Narrative 312
Robert R. Edwards
20 Other Thought-worlds 332
Susanna Fein
21 Pagan Survivals 349
John M. Fyler
22 Personal Identity 360
Lynn Staley
23 Science 378
Irma Taavitsainen
24 Social Structures 397
Robert Swanson
25 Style 414
John F. Plummer
26 Texts 428
Tim William Machan
27 Translation 443
Roger Ellis
28 Visualizing 459
Sarah Stanbury
29 Women 480
Nicky Hallett
Index 495
A propos de l’auteur
Peter Brown is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Kent and Chair of its School of English. His publications include Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (editor and contributor), Chaucer at Work: The Making of the Canterbury Tales, and, with Andrew Butcher, The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in the Canterbury Tales.
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