Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries (Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture)

This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and naturally occurring affinities that emerge from Trigg's ongoing legacy; containing diverse methodological approaches and themes, they engage with Chaucer through ecocriticism, medieval literary and historical criticism, and medievalism. The contributors, trailblazing international specialists in their respective fields, honour Trigg's distinctive and energetic mode of enquiry (the symptomatic long history) and intellectual contribution to the humanities. At the same time, their approaches exemplify shifting trends in Chaucer scholarship. Like Chaucer's pilgrims, these scholars speak to and alongside each other, but their essays are also attentive to 'hearing Chaucer speak' then, now and in the future. Front matter Copyright Contents List of plates Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Identifying, and identifying with, Chaucer First encounter: ‘snail-horn perception’ in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde Sir Thopas’s mourning maidens Chaucerian rhyme-breaking ‘Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face?’ Heavy atmosphere Hunting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight The implausible plausibility of the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn Caxton in the middle of English ‘Hail graybeard bard’: Chaucer in the nineteenth-century popular consciousness Chaucer as Catholic child in nineteenth-century English reception Flesh and stone: William Morris’s News from Nowhere and Chaucer’s dream visions ‘In remembrance of his persone’: transhistorical empathy and the Chaucerian face Textual face: cognition as recognition Bibliography Index This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in medieval literary and medievalism studies, providing a springboard for future research. -- .