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For 700 years, Geoffrey Chaucer has spoken to scholars Manchester C and amateurs alike. How does his work speak to us in the Medieval o n twenty-first century? Within the fluctuating trends of the literature t critical moment, this volume provides a unique vantage e m point for responding to this question, furnished by the and culture signature intellectual framework of pioneering medieval p o literature scholar Stephanie Trigg: the symptomatic long r history. a r y While Trigg’s scholarship acts as a springboard for the C vibrant conversations in this collection, each chapter h offers an inspiring extension of her legacy. The outstanding a contributors delve into a diverse range of subjects that u c frequently cross boundaries. Formerly rigid demarcations e surrounding medieval literary studies give way to an r increasingly fluid interplay between Chaucer within his a c medieval context; medievalism and ‘reception’; the rigours r of scholarly research and the recognition of amateur o s engagement with the past; the significance of the history s of emotions; and the connection between textuality, t h subjectivity and the world they inhabit. e Each chapter engages with one or more of these themes, c e providing a distinctive and often startling interpretation n of Chaucer that broadens our understanding of the t u dynamic relationship between the medieval past and its r ongoing re-evaluation. The inventive strategies employed ie in this volume will stimulate exciting and timely insights s for researchers and students of Chaucer, medievalism, medieval studies, and the history of emotions, especially those interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the AH relationship between medieval literature, the intervening ni c d centuries and contemporary cultural change. k rE Contemporary Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry and Melissa Raine are Research Ay, i Associates at the University of Melbourne nM Ec (E kE Chaucer across d n s d ) r y the centuries Front cover— ISBN 978-1-5261-2915-4 Edward Coley Burne-Jones (designer) and William Morris (painter), tile depicting Dante Gabriel Rossetti as the poet Geoffrey Chaucer reading, 1863 (Photo by © Historical Picture EditEd by HElEn M. HickEy, Archive/CORBIS/Corbis via 9 781526 129154 www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Getty Images) AnnE MckEndry And MElissA rAinE HICK532_PPC.indd 1 25/09/2018 12:44 sanctity and pornography CONTEMPORARY CHAUCER AinC RmOeSdSi eTvHaEl CcEuNltTuUrReIES Series editors: Anke Bernau, David Matthews and James Paz Series founded by: J. J. Anderson and Gail Ashton Advisory board: Ruth Evans, Patricia C. Ingham, Andrew James Johnston, Chris Jones, Catherine Karkov, Nicola McDonald, Sarah Salih, Larry Scanlon and Stephanie Trigg Founding series editors j. j. anderson, gail ashton Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture publishes monogTrhais psehriess ais nbrdoa de isn sscaoype canodl lreeccepttiivoe ntos in novation, bringing together a variety of approaches. It is intended to include monographs, collections of commissioned essays, comprising new research informed by current critical meatnhd oedditoionlos agnide/osr troannsl attiohnes ofl itetxetsr, awrityh a focus on English and English-related cultures of the Middle Ages. We are interested in all periods,li tferraotumre a ntdh ceul teurae.r Itl yem Mbraicdesd mleed ieAvagl wersiti ngs of many different kinds (imaginative, historical, political, scientific, religious) as well as post-medieval treatments of medieval through to the late, and we include post-medieval engagemmaetenriatl.s A nw imitphor taantn adim orfe thper seersiees ins tthaa-t contributions to it should be written in a style which is accessible to a wide range of readers. tions of the medieval period (or ‘medievalism’). ‘Literature’ is taken in a broad sense, to include the many different medieval genres: imaginative, hiaslretaodyr picubalislh, edpolitical, scientific, Language and imagination in the Gawain-poems religious. While we welcome contributions on the diverse cJ. uJ. lAtnuderresosn of medieval Britain and are happy to receive submissions on Anglo-Norman, WAantegr alnod -fiLrea: Tthien m yathn odf t hCe Felolotdi cin Awngrloi-tS-axon England Daniel Anlezark ings, we are also open to work on the Middle Ages in Europe more widely, and beyond. The Parlement of Foulys (by Geoffrey Chaucer) D. S. Brewer (ed.) Titles Available in the Series Greenery: Ecocritical readings of late medieval English literature Gillian Rudd 11. Reading Robin Hood: Content, form and reception in the outlaw myth Stephen Knight 12. Annotated Chaucer bibliography: 1997–2010 Mark Allen and Stephanie Amsel 13. Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads Valerie Allen and Ruth Evans (eds) 14. Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare: Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida Andrew James Johnston, Russell West-Pavlov and Elisabeth Kempf (eds) 15. The Scottish Legendary: Towards a poetics of hagiographic narration Eva von Contzen 16. Nonhuman voices in Anglo-Saxon literature and material culture James Paz 17. The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture Laura Varnam 18. Aspects of knowledge: Preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis (eds) 19. Visions and ruins: Cultural memory and the untimely Middle Ages Joshua Davies 20. Participatory reading in late-medieval England Heather Blatt 21. Affective medievalism: Love, abjection and discontent Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg 22. The politics of Middle English parables: Fiction, theology, and social practice Mary Raschko 23. Performing women: Gender, self, and representation in late-medieval Metz Susannah Crowder 24. Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry and Melissa Raine (eds) Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries Essays for Stephanie Trigg Edited by HELEN M. HICKEY, ANNE McKENDRY AND MELISSA RAINE Manchester University Press Copyright © Manchester University Press 2018 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 5261 2915 4 hardback First published 2018 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Contents List of plates vii Notes on contributors ix Acknowledgements xiv Introduction 1 Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry and Melissa Raine 1 Identifying, and identifying with, Chaucer 14 Paul Strohm 2 F irst encounter: ‘snail-horn perception’ in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde 24 Elizabeth Robertson 3 Sir Thopas’s mourning maidens 42 Helen Cooper 4 Chaucerian rhyme-breaking 56 Ruth Evans 5 ‘Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face?’ 74 Stephanie Downes 6 Heavy atmosphere 91 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 7 H unting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 109 Frank Grady 8 T he implausible plausibility of the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn 125 Thomas A. Prendergast 9 Caxton in the middle of English 138 David Matthews 10 ‘ Hail graybeard bard’: Chaucer in the nineteenth- century popular consciousness 153 Stephen Knight vi Contents 11 Chaucer as Catholic child in nineteenth-century English reception 172 Andrew Lynch 12 Flesh and stone: William Morris’s News from Nowhere and Chaucer’s dream visions 188 John M. Ganim 13 ‘In remembrance of his persone’: transhistorical empathy and the Chaucerian face 201 Louise D’Arcens 14 Textual face: cognition as recognition 218 James Simpson Bibliography 234 Index 257 Plates Plates can be found between pages 130 and 131. 1 B runetto Latini, ‘World’, Li Livres dou Tresor, c.1325, London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 19, fol. 40 (copyright: The British Library Board) 2 Brunetto Latini, ‘Four elements’, Li Livres dou Tresor, c.1325, London, British Library, MS Yates Thompson 19, fol. 28, detail (copyright: The British Library Board) 3 Macrobius, ‘The five zones of the earth’, Commentarii in somnium Scipionis, c.1150, Copenhagen, Royal Danish Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek) MS NkS 218 4˚, fol. 34r, detail (reproduced under a CC BY-NC-ND licence) 4 Prologue to the Tale of Beryn, c.1450–1500, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland MS 455, fol. 180r, detail (copyright: Duke of Northumberland) 5 Tale of Beryn, c.1450–1500, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland MS 455, fol. 190r, detail (copyright: Duke of Northumberland) 6 T homas Stothard, The pilgrimage to Canterbury, 1806–07 (copyright: Tate, London 2018) 7 W illiam Blake, Chaucer’s Canterbury pilgrims, 1810–20 (copyright: The Trustees of the British Museum) 8 S ir Edwin Landseer, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Bal Costumé of 12 May 1842, c.1842–46 (copyright: Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017) 9 ‘Ypunctured privilie with sharpe sper ye miller’s tyer’ from ‘Ye Canterburie pilgrymage (ye real thynge)’, Cycling: An Illustrated Weekly [London], 10 April 1897, pp. 287–8, detail (reproduced by permission of the National Library of Scotland) 10 William Morris, ‘Frontispiece’, News from Nowhere, viii List of Plates Hammersmith: Kelmscott, 1892. London, British Library, Shelfmark: C.43.e.9 (copyright: The British Library Board) 11 Thomas Hoccleve, ‘Chaucer’, De Regimine Principum, c.1411–25, London, British Library, MS Harley 4866, fol. 88r., detail (copyright: The British Library Board) 12 Bill Bailey, ‘Pubbe gagge’, still from live TV studio version, c.2001, www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNEWatD0viw&t=11s 13 Joseph Jastrow, ‘Rabbit duck illusion’, Harper’s Weekly, 19 November 1892, p. 1114, detail (reproduced by permission of the State Library of Victoria) Contributors JEFFREY JEROME COHEN is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University in Tempe and co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. His research exam- ines strange and beautiful things that challenge the imagination, phenomena that seem alien and intimate at once. He is especially interested in what monsters, inhuman forces, and objects and matter that won’t stay put reveal about the cultures that dream, fear and desire them. Cohen is widely published in the fields of medieval studies, monster theory, posthumanism and ecocriti- cism. His book Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) won the René Wellek Prize in Comparative Literature for 2017. HELEN COOPER is Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge, a Life Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford. Her books include Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance (D. S. Brewer, 1977); The Structure of the Canterbury Tales (Duckworth, 1983); Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Oxford University Press, 1996); The English Romance in Time (Oxford University Press, 2004); Shakespeare and the Medieval World (Bloomsbury, 2010); and the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur (Oxford University Press, 1998, 2008). She has also written numerous articles on medieval and early modern topics. LOUISE D’ARCENS is Professor in the Department of English at Macquarie University. Her publications include the books Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian Literature 1840– 1910 (Brepols / University of Western Australia Press, 2011), Comic Medievalism: Laughing at the Middle Ages (D. S. Brewer, 2014),
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