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First entire collection centred on Chaucer's Book of the Duchess,
making a compelling case for its importance and value. The Book of
the Duchess, Chaucer's first major poem, is foundational for our
understanding of Chaucer's literary achievements in relation to
late-medieval English textual production; yet in comparison with
other works, itstreatment has been somewhat peripheral in previous
criticism. This volume, the first full-length collection devoted to
the Book, argues powerfully against the prevalent view that it is
an underdeveloped or uneven early work, and instead positions it as
a nuanced literary and intellectual effort in its own right, one
that deserves fuller integration with twenty-first-century Chaucer
studies. The essays within it pursue lingering questions as well as
new frontiers in research, including the poem's literary
relationships in the sphere of French and English writing, material
processes of transmission and compilation, and patterns of
reception. Each chapter advances an original reading of the Book of
the Duchess that uncovers new aspects of its internal dynamics or
of its literary or intellectual contexts. As a whole, the volume
reveals the poem's mobility and elasticity within an increasingly
international sphere of cultural discourse that thrives on dynamic
exchange and encourages sophisticated reflection on authorial
practice. Jamie C. Fumo is Professor of English at Florida State
University. Contributors: B.S.W. Barootes, Julia Boffey, Ardis
Butterfield, Rebecca Davis, A.S.G. Edwards, Jeff Espie, Philip
Knox, Helen Phillips, Elizaveta Strakhov, Sara Sturm-Maddox, Marion
Wells.
The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's
writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and
manifestations. Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late
medieval literature: where fame came from, who deserved it, whether
it was desirable and how it was acquired and kept. An interest in
fame was not new but was renewed and rethought within the
vernacular revolutions of the later Middle Ages. The work of
Geoffrey Chaucer collates received ideas on the subject of fama,
both from the classical world and from the work of his
contemporaries. Chaucer's place in these intertextual negotiations
was readily recognized in his aftermath, as later writers adopted
and reworked postures which Chaucer had struck, in their own bids
for literary authority. This volume tracks debates onfama which
were past, present and future to Chaucer, using his work as a
centre point to investigate canon formation in European literature
from the late Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period. Isabel
Davis is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Birkbeck,
University of London; Catherine Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval
Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors:
Joanna Bellis, Alcuin Blamires, Julia Boffey, Isabel Davis,
Stephanie Downes, A.S.G. Edwards, Jamie C. Fumo, Andrew Galloway,
Nick Havely, Thomas A. Prendergast, Mike Rodman Jones, William T.
Rossiter, Elizaveta Strakhov.
New investigations into Charles d'Orleans' under-rated poem, its
properties and its qualities. The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes,
the English poetry Charles d'Orleans wrote in the course of his
twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a
larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which it has most
often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that
attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French
traditions, reveals a more conceptually complex and innovative kind
of poetry than we have seen until now. The essays collected here
reassess him in the light of recent work in Middle English studies.
They detail those qualities that make his text one of the most
accomplished and moving of the late Middle Ages: Charles's use of
English, his metrical play, his felicity with formes fixes lyrics,
his innovative use of the dits structure and lyric sequences, and
finally, above all, his ability to write beautiful poetry. Overall,
they bring out the underappreciated contribution made by Charles to
the canon of English poetry.
Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape
culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into
conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the
#MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval
lyric genre known as the pastourelle and in related literary works,
including chivalric romance, devotional lyric, saints' lives, and
the works of major authors such as Margery Kempe and William
Dunbar. By engaging issues that are important to feminist activism
today-the gray areas of sexual consent, the enduring myth of false
rape allegations, and the emancipatory potential of writing about
survival-this volume demonstrates how the radical terms of the
pastourelle might reshape our own thinking about consent, agency,
and survivors' speech and help uncover cultural scripts for talking
about sexual violence today. In addition to embodying the
possibilities of medievalist feminist criticism after #MeToo, Rape
Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature includes
an edition of sixteen Middle English and Middle Scots pastourelles.
The poems are presented in a critical framework specifically
tailored to the undergraduate classroom. Along with the editors,
the contributors to this volume include Lucy M. Allen-Goss, Suzanne
M. Edwards, Mary C. Flannery, Katharine W. Jager, Scott David
Miller, Elizabeth Robertson, Courtney E. Rydel, and Amy N. Vines.
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