Life in Words

Jill Mann is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Mark David Rasmussen is Charles J. Luellen Professor of English at Centre College.

• Author’s PrefaceA Note on ReferencesList of Essays, with Places of Original PublicationEditor’s Introduction, “Jill Mann’s Patience”1. Troilus’s Swoon2. Shakespeare and Chaucer: “What is Criseyde Worth?”3. Chance and Destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight’s Tale4. Chaucerian Themes and Style in the Franklin’s Tale5. Anger and “Glosynge” in the Canterbury Tales6. The Authority of the Audience in Chaucer7. Parents and Children in the Canterbury Tales8. Satisfaction and Payment in Middle English Literature9. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight10. Courtly Aesthetics and Courtly Ethics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight11. Sir Gawain and the Romance Hero12. Knightly Combat in Malory’s Morte Darthur13. “Taking the Adventure”: Malory and the Suite du Merlin14. The Narrative of Distance, The Distance of Narrative in Malory’s Morte Darthur15. Malory and the Grail LegendBibliographyIndex

‘Life in Words is a well-rounded look into Jill Mann’s catalogue… It provides unique and novel arguments to century-old discussions.’- Caitlin Santavenere (Comitatus vol 47:2016) ‘Each essay testifies to Mann’s incomparable close reading skills and enviable erudition, reflecting a careful attention to French and Latin sources over a lifetime of thinking about medieval English literature and language.’- T.S. Miller (Sixteenth Century Journal vol 46:03:2015)