Chaucer General Reading
TEXT The Riverside Chaucer ed. L.D. Benson et al. (1988)
*D. Aers, Chaucer, Langland and the Creative
Imagination
(1980)
R. Blanch and R.J. Wasserman (eds), Chaucer in the
Eighties (1986)
*P. Boitani, and J. Mann (eds), The Cambridge
Chaucer
Companion (1986)
*C. Cannon, The Making of Chaucer's English: A
Study
of Words (1999)
E.T. Donaldson, Speaking of Chaucer (1970)
B. Hanawalt (ed), Chaucer's England: Literature in
Historical Context (1992)
*E.T. Hansen, Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender
(1992)
*D. Lawton, Chaucer's Narrators (Chaucer
Studies
XIII, 1985)
*J. Mann, Geoffrey Chaucer (1991)
*G. Olson, "Chaucer" in D. Wallace (ed.), The
Cambridge
History of Medieval English Literature (1999)
*D. Pearsall, The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (1992)
*L. Scanlon, Narrative, Authority and Power: the
Medieval
Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition (1994)
P. Strohm, Social Chaucer (1989)
D.S. Brewer: Chaucer and his World (1978)
*L. Patterson: Chaucer and the Subject of History
(1991)
*L. Patterson: Negotiating the Past: The Historical
Understanding of Medieval Literature (1987)
links to:
Chaucer
metapage
Chaucer
review bibliography
Larry
Benson's Harvard Chaucer page
A.C. Spearing: Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde.(1976)
R.K Gordon: The Story of Troilus (for
Boccaccio)
(1934)
E.T. Donaldson: Speaking of Chaucer (1970)
Aers' chapter in Community, Gender and Individual
Identity
M. Salu ed.: Essays on Troilus and Criseyde.
(1979)
M. McAlpine: The Genre of Troilus and Criseyde
(1978)
L. Sklute: Virtue of Necessity (1984)
I. Bishop: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
(1981)
C.D. Benson ed. Critical Essays on Troilus and
Criseyde,
and major early poems (1991)
*B. Windeatt, Troilus and Criseyde (Oxford
Guides
to Chaucer, 1992)
Marianne Børch: 'Poet and Persona: Writing the
Reader in Troilus'. Chaucer Review 30 (1998): 215-228.
links to:
Michael
Hanly's Troilus page
Here are some links to recent second year presentations on Troilus
Kelly
on genre
Rachael on the Proems to Books One and Two
Imogen on the Proems to Books Three and
Four
Canterbury Tales Reading List
J. Burrow: 'Irony in the Merchant's Tale' Anglia
75 1977
J. Mann: Chaucer and Mediæval Estates Satire,
1973
*V.A. Kolve: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative:
The First Five Canterbury Tales, (1984)
*D. Pearsall: The Canterbury Tales (1985)
J.J. Anderson ed.: Casebook: Canterbury Tales
*H. Cooper, The Canterbury Tales, Oxford Guide
2nd. ed.(1996)
*H. Marshall Leicester, The Disenchanted Self,
(1990)
Jill Mann, Geoffrey Chaucer (Harvester, 1991)
Judith Ferster, Chaucer on Interpretation, chs.
2,5,6,7, (1985)
*C. David Benson: Chaucer's Drama of Style
(1986)
S. Delany: Medieval Literary Politics (1990)
ch.
8
P. Boitani: English Medieval Narrative in the 13th
and 14th Centuries
(1982), relevant chapters
Carolyn Dinshaw, Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics (1989)
John Hines, The Fabliau in English, (Longman,
1993)
links to: