Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries : essays for Stephanie Trigg / edited by Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry and Melissa Raine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trigg, Stephanie, honouree.

Hickey, Helen, 1949- editor.

McKendry, Anne (Anne Louise), editor.

Raine, Melissa, editor.

Series:

Manchester medieval literature and culture.

Manchester medieval literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages 8 pages of unnumbered plates) : illustrations (colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in medieval literary and medievalism studies, providing a springboard for future research.

Contents:

Introduction / Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry and Melissa Raine

1. Identifying, and identifying with , Chaucer / Paul Strohm

2. First encounter: 'snail horn perception' in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Elizabeth Robertson

3. Sir Thopas 's mourning maidens - Helen Cooper

4. Chaucerian rhyme-breaking / Ruth Evans

5. 'Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face?' / Stephanie Downes

6. Heavy atmosphere / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

7. Hunting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Frank Grady

8. The implausible plausibility of the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn / Thomas A. Prendergast

9. Caxton in the middle of English / David Matthews

10. 'Hail graybeard bard': Chaucer in the nineteenth-century popular consciousness / Stephen Knight

11. Chaucer as Catholic child in nineteenth-century English reception / Andrew Lynch

12. Flesh and stone: William Morris's News from Nowhere and Chaucer's dream visions / John M. Ganim

13. 'In remembrance of his persone': transhistorical empathy and the Chaucerian face / Louise D'Arcens

14. Textual face: cognition as recognition - James Simpson

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 26, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526141996

152614199X

9781526129161

1526129167

OCLC:

1059419242