Chaucer and trauma / edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fein, Susanna, 1950- editor.

Raybin, David B., 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Violence in literature.

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 226 pages)

Other Title:

Chaucer & trauma

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"A collection of essays examining Chaucer's attention to violence, victimhood, abuse, and isolation in Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales. Using close textual analysis, original perspectives, and modern theoretical approaches, contributors explore subjects relative to contemporary concerns such as injustice, emotional suffering, violence, slavery, and catastrophe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Thinking plague and intergenerational trauma in the Canterbury Tales / David K. Coley

Rape myth, trauma reality : reading survival in Chaucer's Reeve's tale / Sarah Baechle

Motherhood interrupted : bodies, borders, and Chaucer's Griselda / Kate Koppelman

Griselda as familial slave : trauma and caste in the Clerk's tale / Susanna Fein

Claiming trauma : antifeminist backlash, gendered victimization, and shrewish rage / Carissa M. Harris

The sublime trauma of Chaucer's Franklin's tale / Samuel F. McMillan

Witnessing sexual violence in the tale of Melibee / Suzanne M. Edwards

Criseyde and the nontraumatic kernel / Matthew W. Irvin

Criseyde, the face of trauma / Lynn Staley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Chaucer and trauma

ISBN:

9780271100128

0271100125

9780271100111

0271100117

OCLC:

1522510515

Publisher Number:

CIPO000208128

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license