LibGuides: AUTHORS: GEOFFREY CHAUCER

catalog of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland and English books printed abroad, 1474-1640, with links to the digital facsimile page images. Search for Chaucer - half a dozen 15th and 16th-century editions of the Canterbury Tales are included.

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RESEARCH & CRITICISM

MLA International Bibliography

MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative Chaucer scholarship published in books and academic journals. MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers and the Colby College Libraries catalog. If you discover books or articles through MLA that are not available at Colby or through our lending partners, please request these items using your ILLiad Account.

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Chaucerian Spaces [electronic resource] : spatial poetics in Chaucer's opening tales
by William F. Woods
Postmedieval: a Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies
cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal in medieval studies that aims to bring the medieval and modern into productive critical relation.
Early English Aloud and Alive [electronic resource (video)] : language of Beowulf, Chaucer, and Shakespeare
A Companion to Chaucer
edited by Peter Brown | Miller Library PR1906.5 .C66 2000
Chaucer's Jobs
by David R. Carlson | Miller Library PR1905 .C37 2004
Chaucer : His Life, His Works, His World
by Donald R. Howard | Miller Library PR1905 .H58 1987
The Familiar Enemy : Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War
by Ardis Butterfield PR275.N29 B88 2009 SUMMARY: The Familiar Enemy re-examines the linguistic, literary, and cultural identities of England and France within the context of the Hundred Years War. Traditionally Chaucer has been seen as a quintessentially English author. This book argues that he needs to be resituated within the deeply francophone context, not only of England but the wider multilingual cultural geography of medieval Europe.
Chaucer : Contemporary Approaches
PR1924 .C434 2010 CONTENTS: Italy / Robert R. Edwards
Ecofeminist Subjectivities : Chaucer's Talking Birds
by Lesley Kordecki PR1933.B57 K67 2011 "This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or more pertinently those with animals speaking, offer fruitful results in the attempt to understand the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society"
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PRIMARY SOURCES: TEXTS

Archival Collections/Papers

Corpus Christi College, Early Manuscripts, Oxford University
The Geoffrey Chaucer Website, Harvard University
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan

Caxton Chaucer at the British Library, 2 editions of the Canterbury Tales available online

The Canterbury Tales [BOOK]
Translated into modern English verse by Frank Ernest Hill | Miller Library PR1870.A1 H5 1935
Original text also online
The Complete Poetry and Prose of Geoffrey Chaucer
Edited by John H. Fisher | Miller Library PR1851 .F5 1989b
House of Fame [EBOOK]
Original text
The Legend of a Good Woman [BOOK]
Translated by Ann McMillan | Colby Storage PR1881 .M36 1987
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The works of Geoffrey Chaucer : compared with the former editions, and many valuable mss. out of which, three tales are added which were never before printed
In Special Collections: ROBSN FOLIO PR1850 1721
The "three tales" mentioned in the title include: The coke's tale of Gamelyn; The marchant's second tale, or, The history of Beryn; and The adventure of the pardoner and tapster at the Inn at Canterbury.