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 (245 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Trauma is an inescapable condition of Chaucer's works.From the ravaging of Troy and the abandonment of Dido to the devastating aftereffects of sexual assault, Chaucer portrayed the most unsettling, searing aspects of human experience.

Contents:

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Thinking Plague and Intergenerational Traumain the Canterbury Tales

Chapter 2: Rape Myth, Trauma Reality Reading Survival in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale

Chapter 3: Motherhood Interrupted Bodies, Borders, and Chaucer's Griselda

Chapter 4: Griselda as Familial Slave Trauma and Caste in the Clerk's Tale

Chapter 5: Claiming Trauma Antifeminist Backlash, Gendered Victimization, and Shrewish Rage

Chapter 6: The Sublime Trauma of Chaucer's Franklin's Tale

Chapter 7: Witnessing Sexual Violence in the Tale of Melibee

Chapter 8: Criseyde and the Nontraumatic Kernel

Chapter 9: Criseyde, the Face of Trauma

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Fein, Susanna Chaucer and Trauma

ISBN:

9780271100111

OCLC:

1521501994