Chaucer: here and now

Abstract

A collection of essays exploring Geoffrey Chaucer's life, work, and enduring impact. The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know.

Contents

Foreword / Richard Ovenden OBE -- Introduction -- Collaboration and chaos : Chaucer's early readers / Marion Turner -- Authorizing the canon : Chaucer in the world of print / Jeff Espie and Alexandra Gillespie -- 'Here is God's plenty' : translating chaucer / Adam Rounce -- Empire, education and Englishness : domesticating Chaucer / David Matthews -- Women reading Chaucer / Marion Turner -- Chaucerian multilingualism past and present / Jonathan Hsy -- Chaucer on film and television ; Chaucer in the twenty-first century / Marion Turner -- Chronology of selected major texts and editions.