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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. 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
