Studies in the Age of Chaucer - v. 22

Now in its third decade, Studies in the Age of Chaucer is well established as the premier periodical in Chaucer studies and in later Middle English literature.

In addition to its annual bibliography of Chaucer scholarship and authoritative reviews on new books of interest to Chaucerians, Volume 22 contains original scholarship by both young and established scholars ranging in a wide variety of approaches.

Peter Travis's "White," is a psychoanalytic and poststructuralist meditation on The Book of Duchess, while Christopher Cannon's "Chaucer and Rape: Uncertainty's Certainties," resituates Cannon's own groundbreaking work on this topic with an extended consideration of the similarities and differences in conceptualizations of rape between medieval and modern law.

David Matthews adds to the growing body of work in Chaucer's nachleben with "Infantilizing the Father: Chaucer Translations and Moral Regulation." In "The Engaged Spectator: Langland and Chaucer on Civic Spectacle and the Theatrum," Lawrence M.

Clopper takes up the timely issues of spectacularization and performance and traces their treatment in the work of the period's two most important poets. Alan Fletcher and Frank Grady explore two neglected aspects of two overlooked poems in "Sir Orfeo and the Flight from the Enchanters," and "St.

Erkenwald and the Merciless Parliament," while Joel Fredell affords magisterial treatment to the humble paraf in "The Lowly Paraf: Transmitting Manuscript Design in The Canterbury Tales." Sarah Tolmie adds to the growing body of new work on Thomas Hoccleve in "The Prive Scilence of Thomas Hoccleve." The articles are rounded out by two different types of intertextual studies of The Parliament of Fowls.

Daniel Pinti's "Commentary and Comedic Reception: Dante and the Subject of Reading in The Parliament of Fowls" situates the poem in relation to the already extensive tradition of Dante commentary contemporaneous with Chaucer, while Theresa Tinkle's "The Case of the Variable Source: Alan of Lille's De planctu Naturae, Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose, and Chaucer's Parlement of Fowles" examines the extremely intricate textual history of the De planctu, and the differences it makes to our understanding of Chaucer's poem.