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Refiguring
Chaucer in the Renaissance by Theresa M. Krier Contents: Introduction: Receiving Chaucer in Renaissance England, by Theresa M. Krier Part I. Forming Canons "Wrastling for this world": Wyatt and the Tudor Canonization of Chaucer, by John Watkins Authority and the Defense of Fiction: Renaissance Poetics and Chaucer's House of Fame, by Carol A. N. Martin Thomas Speght's Renaissance Chaucer and the solaas of sentence in Troilus and Criseyde, by Clare Kinney Part II. Claims for Narrative Poetry: Chaucer and Spenser Narrative Reflections: Re-envisaging the Poet in The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queene, by Judith H. Anderson "Sundrie Doubts": Vulnerable Understanding and Dubious Origins in Spenser's Continuation of the Squire's Tale, by Craig A. Berry Idolatrous Idylls: Protestant Iconoclasm, Spenser's Daphnaïda, and Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, by Glenn Steinberg Part III. Gender and the Translation of Genre Room of One's Own for Decisions: Chaucer and The Faerie Queene, by A. Kent Hieatt The Aim Was Song: From Narrative to Lyric in The Parlement of Foules and Love's Labour's Lost, by Theresa M. Krier Jacobean Chaucer: The
Two Noble Kinsmen and Other Chaucerian Plays, by
Helen Cooper Theresa M. Krier, associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Gazing on Secret Sights: Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorums of Vision and of essays on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance poetry. 1998. 248 pp. 6 X 9. Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8130-1552-9 Cloth, $55.00
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This collection of essays surveys the diverse receptions
and workings of Chaucer from the early 16th to the early
17th century. It emphasizes the many kinds of influence
that Chaucer and his poems exerted on British letters and
culture during these years and assesses how
"Chaucer"—poet, works, and representations
by others—became a cultural category that changed in
Tudor and early Jacobean England, as the Reformation and
increasing distance from Middle English made Chaucer
representative of a lost medieval past. "Scholars, teachers, and students of Renaissance literature and culture should find this volume enlightening and useful, providing an insightful consideration of Renaissance intertextuality while offering numerous avenues for further exploration. This collection is a welcome addition to Renaissance literary studies."-- Sixteenth Century Journal "A welcome contribution to a field in which there are still few book-length studies." -- Medium Aevum |
