The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer: (Routledge Literature Companions)

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.

Table 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.