• ISBN13: 9781119087991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley
• Publication Date: January 1, 2023
• Pages: 2224
• Original Price: USD 780.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 4790 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

From the Back Cover

The Chaucer Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive and academically rigorous overview of the life, times, works, and influence of Geoffrey Chaucer (b. 1340s d. 1400). Approximately 1,400 entries written by renowned Chaucer specialists and emerging scholars describe the people, places, objects, and concepts in Chaucer's works, explore various critical and methodological approaches to his texts, and demonstrate Chaucer's influence on generations of authors and readers from the fourteenth century to the present.

Spanning four substantial volumes, this authoritative one-stop guide to Chauceriana contains a well-balanced mixture of brief descriptive entries, longer interpretative essays, and in-depth examinations of important topics within the field of Chaucer Studies.

The Chaucer Encyclopedia includes the latest information on the scribes and transmission of Chaucer's works, reflects the current interest in aesthetics and sensory studies as applied to Chaucer, engages non-Anglophone appropriations and translations of Chaucer, and addresses the full spectrum of analogs and sources of Chaucer's works: direct or intermediary, contemporary, and from the distant past.

The Chaucer Encyclopedia is an indispensable literary resource for undergraduate and graduate students, Chaucer scholars, and informed general readers.

Editor in Chief
RICHARD NEWHAUSER is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Arizona State University-Tempe. He is the author of The Early History of Greed and Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages and the editor of A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages.

Associate Editors
VINCENT GILLESPIE is Emeritus J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford. He is Honorary Director of the Early English Text Society and Series Editor of Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies.

JESSICA ROSENFELD is Associate Professor of English Literature at Washington University, St. Louis. She is the co-editor of Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory and the author of Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle.

KATIE WALTER is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Middle English Mouths: Religious, Medical and Literary Traditions in Later Medieval England and the editor of Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture.