Chaucer

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Susanna Fein and David Raybin

I. Chaucer’s Places

1. Italy

Robert R. Edwards

2. France

Ardis Butterfield

3. England

Kathy Lavezzo

II. Chaucer’s Audiences

4. Manuscripts and Scribes

Simon Horobin

5. Receptions: Medieval, Tudor, Modern

Seth Lerer

III. Chaucer and Language

6. Language in Use

Karla Taylor

7. Colonialism, Latinity, and Resistance

John M. Bowers

IV. Reenvisioning Chaucer

8. Humor in Perspective

Laura Kendrick

9. Dream Poems

A. C. Spearing

10. Gender and Sexuality

Glenn Burger

11. Literary History

Steven Justice

Bibliography

Editors and Contributors

Index

“This volume admirably achieves its goal to sketch out the scholarly successes in Chaucer studies. . . . [T]he chapters in this volume succeed in articulating the impressive contributions made by the current generations of Chaucer scholars and in offering a clear sense of the promising future that lies ahead.”

—Deanne Williams, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies