Chaucer

Corinne Saunders is Lecturer at the University of Durham. Her previous publications include Forest of Medieval Romance (1993) and Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (2001).

• Introduction. Part I: The Development of Chaucer Criticism:.Chaucer's Reading and Audience: Critical Extracts.'The English and European Literary Traditions': Derek Brewer:.Introduction.Reading.From 'Chaucer: The Teller and the Tale': Gabriel Joipovici:.Introduction.Reading.From 'Audience': Paul Strohm:.Introduction.Reading.PArt II: Dream Vision Poetry:.Dream Vision Poetry: Critical Extracts.'The Lady White and the White Tablet: The Book of the Duchess': Judith Ferster:.Introduction.Reading.' "The Dido Episode," in The House of Fame': Wolfgang Clemen.Introduction.Reading.'Chaucer's Fame and Her World: The Poem': Piero Boitani:.Introduction.Reading.'Park of Paradise and Garden of Love': J. A. W. Bennett:.Introduction.Reading.'The Parliament of Fowls': A. C. Spearing:.Introduction.Reading.'The Narrator as Translator': Donald W. Rowe:.Introduction.Reading.'Chaucer's Classical Legendary': Lisa J. Kiser:.Introduction.Reading.Part III: Troilus and Criseyde:.Troilus and Criseyde: Critical Extracts.From 'The Ending of Troilus': E. Talbot Donaldson:.Introduction.Reading.From 'The Heart and the Chain': John Leyerle:.Introduction.Reading.From 'Criseyde: Woman in Medieval Society': David Aers:.Introduction.Reading.'Coda: The Narrator': B David Benson:.Introduction.Reading.'History versus Romance': Lee Patterson.PArt IV: The Canterbury Tales:.The Canterbury Tales: Critical Extracts.From 'The Unity of the Canterbury Tales': Robert M. Jordan:.Introduction.Reading.'The Esthetics of this Form': Donald R. Howard:.Introduction.Reading.'An Encyclopedia of Kinds': Helen Cooper:.Introduction.Reading.From ' The Night's Tale and Its Settings': V. A. Kolve:.Introduction.Reading.'Fabliau, Confession, Satire': W. A. Davenport:.Introduction.Reading.'Gems of Chastity': Ian Bishop:.Introduction.Reading.From 'Antifeminism': Jill Mann:.Introduction.Reading.From 'The Franklin's Tale': Angela Jane Weisl:.Introduction.Reading.From 'Glose/Bele Chose: The Wife of Bath and Her Glossators' and 'Eunuch Hermeneutics': Carolyn Dinshaw:.Introduction.Reading.Bibliography.

"The acuteness of Corinne Saunders's analyses makes this volume considerably more than a collection of critical extracts; it manages to be at once illuminating about Chaucer, Chaucerian criticism, and twentieth-century criticism in general, its range, its concerns, its disagreements, and its radical insights." Medium Aevum LXXI/2002 "Saunders's Chaucer is a thought-inspiring and highly recommended coursebook to use beside The Riverside Chaucer." English Studies