The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) in a global context.

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary perspectives on Chaucer both geographically and intellectually, including:

• Exploration of major and lesser-known works, translations, and lyrics, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde

• Consideration of geographic and imagined spaces in various forms of communication

• Discussion of identities, cognitions, and patterns of thought, including gender, race, disability, science, and nature

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer provides post-pandemic, twenty-first century readers a way to teach, learn, and write about Chaucer's works complete with awareness of their reach, their limitations, and occlusions on a global field of culture.

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Craig E. Bertolet is Hollifield Professor of English at Auburn University. In addition to numerous chapters and articles on Gower and Chaucer, he is the author of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and the Commercial Practices of Late Fourteenth-Century London (2013) and co-editor with Robert Epstein of Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature (2017).

Susan Nakley is the author of Living in the Future: Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales (2017) and Professor and Associate Chair of English at St. Joseph's University, New York. She studies intersections of literature and politics in Middle English texts. With Karla Taylor, she recently coedited "What We Think of When We Think of The Prioress's Tale," a special issue of the Chaucer Review 59.3 (July 2024). Her current projects include Barbarous Tongues: Essays on Language and Alterity in the Later Middle Ages, coedited with Larry Scanlon, and Libelous Reorientations: Anti-Judaism, Orientalism, and Performance, a second monograph.

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The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) in a global context.

Inhalt

General Introduction

Craig E. Bertolet & Susan Nakley

Part One: Exteriorities
Susan Nakley

1 Nation and Englishness

Marion Turner

2 France, Italy, and Flanders

Craig E. Bertolet

3 The Mediterranean World

Jamie K. Taylor

4 Europe

Jonathan Stavsky

5 Asia

Susan Nakley

6 Africa

Christine Chism

7 Merchants

Roger A. Ladd

8 Trade

Craig E. Bertolet

9 Pilgrimage

Sarah Breckenridge Wright

10 Medievalism

Elizabeth Liendo

11 Dreams

Kathryn L. Lynch

12 Sound and Song

Andrew Albin

13 Letters

Elizabeth Brissey

14 Gifts

Robert Epstein

15 Rhetoric

Joseph Sharp

16 Translation

Elizaveta Strakhov

17 Storytelling: Source Study

Gabriel Ford

18 Storytelling: Analogue Study

Emily Houlik-Ritchey

19 Manuscripts and Books

J. D. Sargan

20 Multimodal Chaucer

Kara L. McShane

Part Two: Interiorities
Craig E. Bertolet

21 Labor

Brian W. Gastle

22 Feminism

Carissa M. Harris

23 Gender

M. W. Bychowski

24 Sexuality

Geoffrey W. Gust

25 Race

Shoshana Adler

26 Disability

Tory V. Pearman

27 Islam

Shazia Jagot

28 Judaism

Maija Birenbaum

29 Christendom and Heathenesse

Jennifer Garrison

30 Deviance

Jeffery G. Stoyanoff

31 Time

Gillian Adler

32 Science

Hannah Bower

33 Things

Jenny Adams

34 Nature

Shawn Normandin

35 Animals

Aylin Malcolm

36 Marvels

Tara Williams

37 Cosmopolitanism

Larry Scanlon

38 Affect

Sif Rikharðsdottir

39 Sin

Karla Taylor

40 Sanctuary and Refuge

Elizabeth Allen