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Biographical
The Works of Chaucer
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The Riverside Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson (Editor)
US $90.85
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Feb 1987
The Chaucerians' "Bible," the authoritative
text of all Chaucer's works with glossaries,
notes, as well as sources and analogues. This
is a must for the serious student and scholar.
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Canterbury Tales
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by Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright, Translator
US $5.91
Published by Oxford Univ Pr, June 1998
An excellent verse translation that retains
the feel of Chaucer's language.
"scholarly, and frequently pleasing... a delight"
—Times Educational Supplement
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Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, A.C. Cawley, editor
US $15.26
Reprint Edition, Revised
Everyman Paperback Classics, July 1991
The complete Tales in Middle English with
good glosses.
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
US $13.97
Hardcover
Published by Modern Library, November 1,1994
Modern Library's affordable hardcover edition
with Middle English text.
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The Canterbury Tales
(Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translator)
US $7.16
Penguin USA, August 1989
"Rendered here with consummate skill and
sensitivity into modern English verse by Nevill
Coghill, The Canterbury Tales (which Geoffrey
Chaucer began in 1386 and never completed)
retain all their vigour, their humour and indeed
their poetry." —Penguin Books.
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Canterbury Tales: A Selection
(Signet Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer, James M. Dean (Editor), Donald R. Howard (Editor)
US $4.21
New American Library, December 1988
Here in an affordable edition is a selection of
Chaucer's tales in the original Middle English
with a "normalized" spelling system to facilitate
reading. Included is a full critical introduction,
extensive footnotes, a guide to pronunciation,
and a Chaucer chronology.
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The Wife of Bath
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Peter G. Beidler (Editor)
Hardcover US $39.95
Paperback US $10.65
Published by Bedford Books, June 1996
"This new edition of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue
and Tale is at once a useful introduction to the text,
character and culture (both historical and critical) of the
Wife, and also an introduction to contemporary critical
methods of reading her (all intended for undergraduates
or beginning graduate students)."
—Michael Calabrese
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Chaucer and the Universe of Learning
by Ann W. Astell
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.
US $37.50
"Astell proposes that Chaucer intended the order
preserved in what is known as the Ellesmere
manuscript. In supporting her claim, Astell
reveals
a wealth of insights into the world of medieval
learning, Chaucer's expected audience, and the
meaning of The
Canterbury Tales."(Card Catalog)
Synopsis and Table of Contents
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Geoffrey Chaucer's the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
(Modern Critical Interpretations)
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Harold Bloom
US $34.95
Library Binding
Chelsea House Pub, March 1988
"A collection of ten critical essays on the
Prologue to Chaucer's well-known work,
arranged in chronological order of their
original publication."(Card Catalog)
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A Companion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
by Margaret Hallissy
US $49.95
Greenwood Pub Group, Nov 1995
"geared specifically to high school and under-
graduate students because it systematically
proceeds through a clear explication of each
tale and makes the tales accessible to those
unfamiliar with Chaucer's work. Reading this
book along with Canterbury Tales, tale by tale,
will help the reader to understand and appreciate
each tale, Chaucer's world, and his language."
—The Publisher
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Chaucer's Pilgrims : An Historical Guide to the
Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales
by Laura C. Lambdin (Editor), Robert T. Lambdin (Editor)
Hardcover US $85.00
Paperback US $29.95
(HB) Greenwood Pub Group, April 1996
(PB) Praeger Pub Text; May 1999
A study in to the vocations of the Canterbury Pilgrims,
specifically their place and function in society in the
14th century. There are also bibliographies of recent
critical works relative to each pilgrim.
Synopsis and Table of Contents
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Framing the Canterbury Tales :
Chaucer and the
Medieval Frame Narrative Tradition
by Katherine S. Gittes
Published by Greenwood Pub Group, October 1991
US $52.95
"A clear emphasis on the literary antecedents of the
Canterbury Tales differentiates this book from most
criticism of Chaucer's work. Gittes finds a blending of
two frame narrative traditions in the Canterbury Tales,
one originating in India and the Near East, and the
other in ancient Greece." —The Publisher
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Troilus and Criseyde
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Troilus and Criseyde : A New Translation
(World's Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer, B. A. Windeatt
US $7.61
Oxford University Press, June 1998
This modern English prose translation includes an
introduction by a major Chaucerean scholar, an
index of Trojan War names, and an illuminating
index of Proverbs.
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Oxford Guides to Chaucer : Troilus and Criseyde
by Barry Windeatt
Hardcover US $90.00
Paperback US $34.95
Clarendon Press, June 1,1992 (1995 PB)
"The most comprehensive introduction to Troilus and Criseyde
yet produced. It includes the fullest and most convenient account
of Chaucer's imaginative use of his sources, the first extended
analysis of the poem's originality of genre, and a readable com-
mentary on all aspects of the work, its structure, themes, char-
acterization, and style. It also contains a survey of literary
responses to Troilus in the three centuries following Chaucer's
death." —The Publisher.
Synopsis and Table of Contents
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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde :
A Poet's Response
to Ockhamism
by Helen Ruth Andretta
Published by Peter Lang Publishing, April 1997
US $44.95
"This study comprehensively reviews Ockhamism
and its possible influence on Chaucer in his version
of the Troy story. A close analysis of the anachron-
istic characterizations of Troilus, Criseyde, and
Pandarus and of the images, words and discourse
of the poem leads to the conclusion that Chaucer
was a traditional scholastic thinker, thereby making
the poem an artistic negative response to the skept-
ical philosophy of his time. " —The Publisher
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Shorter Poems
Legend of Good Women
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The Naked Text : Chaucer's Legend of Good
Women
by Sheila Delany
Univ of California/Princeton Press, January 1994
US $50.00
"*The Naked Text* marks the culmination of almost
twenty-five years of careful reflection on a remarkably
controversial text. Confronting the controversy head on,
Delany offers an eclectic and irreverent reading of the
*Legend* that will itself provoke yet more controversy."
(Nicola F. McDonald)
Table of Contents
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House of Fame
Chaucer's Language
The Language and Metre of Chaucer
by Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten Brink
2nd edition. Revised by Friedrich Kluge.
Translated by M.
Bentinck Smith
US $65.00
Published by Greenwood Pub Group, June 1969
"Phonology, accidence—verb formations and
inflections—and verse and stanza structure are
treated in this standard text."
—The Publisher
Verses of Cadence : An Introduction to the
Prosody of Chaucer and His Followers
by James G. Southworth
US $79.00
Reprint Services Corp, June 1997 (1954)
"A study of cadence in Chaucerian and Medieval
verse with particular attention to often-neglected
marks of punctuation in the manuscripts."
—The Publisher
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A Guide to Chaucer's Meter
by Arthur Wayne Glowka
University Press of America, March 1991
US $34.50
A guide to versification in Chaucer's works.
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Chaucer and the Politics of Discourse
by Michaela Paasche Grudin
Univ of South Carolina Press, December 1,1996
US $29.95
"Michaela Paasche Grudin contends that for
Chaucer speech is the heart of culture and
that his major work comprises a copious and
subtle analysis of the spoken word.... Grudin
provides surprising new readings of Chaucer's
poetry." (Card Catalog)
Synopsis and Table of Contents
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Chaucer and Gender
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Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender
by Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Univ of California/Princeton Press, January 1,1992
US $16.95
"Hansen expertly demonstrates Chaucer's gender
anxieties regarding authorship, the feminine, and
women characters; even more impressive, however,
is her central argument—the necessity of rereading
familiar Chaucer stories."
—Cheryl Glenn
Read the Review by Cheryl Glenn
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Chaucer's Sexual Poetics
by Carolyn Dinshaw
Univ of Wisconsin Press, February 1990
US $18.95
"[Dinshaw] finds gendered relations such as courtship,
marriage, and betrayal, to be not just plot elements,
but central to understanding Chaucer's investment in
patriarchal discourse and his awareness of its limitations.
The back matter is extensive, comprising over a third
of the book." —Book News, Inc.
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Bibliographical
General
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A New Introduction to Chaucer
(Longman Medieval and Renaissance
Library)
by Derek S. Brewer
US $36.80
2nd edition
Published by Addison Wesley Pub Co, May 1998
"[R]adically rewritten since the previous edition....
[A] modern restatement of some of the traditional
views on Chaucer, and seeks to present a rounded
introduction to his life, cultural setting and works."
—The Publisher.
Description and Table of Contents
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Chaucer's Dream Poetry
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Helen Phillips, Nick Havely
US $35.00
Published by Addison Wesley Pub Co, Feb 1998
"The poems discussed are The Book of the Duchess,
The Legend of Good Women, The Legend of Dido,
The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame.
Each have an introduction setting the poem within
the context of Dream Poetry and Chaucer's own work."
—The Publisher.
Description and Table of Contents
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Chaucer : Sources and Backgrounds
by Robert P. Miller
US $24.95
Published by Oxford Univ Pr, June 1977
Sources and backgrounds for Chaucer's
works. Valuable book for study of primary
sources and analogues.
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Chaucer and His World
by Derek Brewer
Reissue Edition
Paperback US $29.95
Hardcover US $63.00
Boydell & Brewer, November 1,1992
"Derek Brewer's biography offers what cultural
anthropologists may call a 'thick description' of
his life and times, reflecting first the poetry, but
drawing on historical documents and critical
insights to give a full and rounded picture of a
distant but still relevant age and a fascinating
poet."(Card Catalog)
Synopsis and Table of Contents
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Chaucer and the Subject of History
by Lee Patterson
Univ of Wisconsin Press, October 1,1991
US $21.95
A study of Chaucer in and his works in history.
"Chaucer and the Subject of History is the
product of one of the most original and power-
ful minds in medieval literary studies today. I
predict that this will be the Chaucer book of
our generation."
—Peter W. Travis, Dartmouth College
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Chaucer's Chain of Love
by Paul Beekman Taylor
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, November 1996
US $35.00
"Traces the thematic and structural implications for
Chaucer's poetry of the Platonic-Christian concept
of the chain of love between God and his creation,
linking time, space, and words."
—Stephen R. Reimer
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Chaucer's Ovidian Arts of Love
by Michael A. Calabrese
US $49.95
Published by Univ Pr of Florida, September 1994
"This book is the fullest study of Ovid and Chaucer
available and the only one to focus on love, desire,
and the gender-power struggles that Chaucer explores
through Ovid." —Card Catalog
Full Description and TOC
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Chaucer in Context : Society, Allegory and Gender
(Manchester Medieval Studies)
by S. H. Rigby
US $26.95
Manchester Univ Press, February 1997.
"Writing as an historian, Rigby argues that instead of
seeking to modernise Chaucer, we need to locate his
work in the context of the thought, social issues and
political controversies of Chaucer's own day."
(Card Catalog)
"A historian considers current disputes in Chaucer
studies (was he a sceptic or a believer? was he a
misogynist or a defender of women? did his writings
challenge the social order or defend the status quo?)"
—Stephen R. Reimer
Synopsis and Table of Contents
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Geoffrey Chaucer
(Modern Critical Views:
Medieval and Renaissance)
by Harold Bloom (Editor), William Golding (Editor)
Library Binding
US $34.95
Chelsea House Pub, January 1,1990
One of the most eminent American literary critics of
our time, Harold Bloom, the author of "The Western
Canon" and editor of "Bloom's Notes", brings the
readers a valuable work of contemporary Chaucer
criticism.
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Chaucer's Dante : Allegory and Epic
Theater in the
Canterbury Tales
by Richard Neuse
Published by Univ California Press, October 1991
US $55.00
"Neuse argues that in much the same way Dante's
Divine Comedy translates Virgil, The Canterbury
Tales translates Dante—a tidy argument with
impressive evidence and important consequences
for Chaucer studies, especially in its departure from
arguments advanced by previous Chaucerians that
Boethius was the major influence on Chaucer's
thought." —Cheryl Glenn
Read the Review by Cheryl Glenn
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