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The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
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by Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Editor), James Simpson (Editor)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari
The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari
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Overview
As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion.
The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199582655 |
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| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date: | 11/09/2020 |
| Series: | Oxford Handbooks |
| Pages: | 678 |
| Product dimensions: | 9.80(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.80(d) |
About the Author
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor of Medieval Studies, Institute for Advanced Study,James Simpson, Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor English, Harvard University
Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of Medieval Studies at Institute for Advanced Study, and was educated at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. She has written books on optics and allegory (Seeing Through the Veil) and European views of Islam and the Orient (Idols in the East), and edited collections on travel literature (Marco Polo), Mediterranean Studies (A Sea of Languages), and somatic histories (The Ends of the Body).
James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. He was formerly Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are Reform and Cultural Revolution, being volume 2 in the Oxford English Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2002); Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (Harvard University Press, 2007), and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of Medieval Studies at Institute for Advanced Study, and was educated at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. She has written books on optics and allegory (Seeing Through the Veil) and European views of Islam and the Orient (Idols in the East), and edited collections on travel literature (Marco Polo), Mediterranean Studies (A Sea of Languages), and somatic histories (The Ends of the Body).
James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. He was formerly Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are Reform and Cultural Revolution, being volume 2 in the Oxford English Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2002); Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (Harvard University Press, 2007), and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Table of Contents
Introduction: Placing the Past, Suzanne Conklin Akbariart 1: Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life, rt 1: Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life1. Chaucer's Travels for the Court, Peter Brown2. Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game, Matthew Giancarlo3. At Home in the 'Countour-Hous': Inhabiting Space on Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings, Jonathan Hsy4. Labour and Time, Kellie Robertson5. Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England, Alexandra Gillespie6. The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book, Martha Rust7. 'Gaufred, deere maister soverain': Chaucer and Rhetoric, James Simpson· Part 2: Chaucer in the Mediterranean Frame8. Anti-Judaism / Anti-Semitism and the Structures of Chaucerian Thought, Steven F. Kruger9. 'O Hebraic People!' English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene, Ruth Nisse10. The Hazards of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the Oriental Tale, Karla Mallette11. Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer, Suzanne M. Yeager· Part 3: Chaucer in the European Frame12. Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality, Jamie C. Fumo13. Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy, Marilynn Desmond14. The Romance of the Rose: Allegory and Lyric Voice, David F. Hult15. Challenging the Patronage Paradigm: Late-Medieval Francophone Writers and the Poet-Prince Relationship, Deborah McGrady16. Dante and the Author of the Decameron: Love, Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio, Martin Eisner17. Boccaccio's Early Romances, Warren Ginsberg18. Chaucer's Petrarch: 'enlumnyed ben they', Ronald Martinez19. Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live, David L. Pike20. Historiography: Nicholas Trevet's Transnational History, Suzanne Conklin Akbari· Part 4: Philosophy and Science in the Universities21. Grammar and Rhetoric c. 1100-c. 1400, Rita Copeland22. Philosophy, Logic, and Nominalism, Fabienne Michelet and Martin Pickavé23. The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court,, Eleanor Johnson24. Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day, E. Ruth Harvey25. Logic and Mathematics. The Oxford Calculators, Edith Dudley Sylla· Part 5: Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy26. Wycliffism and its After-Effects, Stephen E. Lahey27. Anticlericalism', Inter-clerical Polemic and Theological Vernaculars, o Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Melissa Mayus, and Katie Bugyis28. Chaucer as Image-Maker, Denise Despres· Part 6: The Chaucerian Afterlife29. Geographesis, or the Afterlife of Britain in Chaucer, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen30. Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower, T. Matthew N. McCabe31. Lydgate's Chaucer, Anthony Bale32. Dialogism in Hoccleve, Jonathan Newman33. Old Books and New Beginnings North of Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in the Kingis Quair and the Testament of Cresseid, Iain MacLeod HigginsFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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