Chaucer's Cultural Geography

by Kathryn L. Lynch (Editor)

Overview

This compilation of new essays and essays published over the past fifty years explores Chaucer's experiences with the cultural other, especially Chaucer's relationship to Far Eastern, Islamic, and African sources. While studies of Chaucer's orientalism have heretofore focused on the Squire's Tale , Chaucer's Cultural Geography considers many different Chaucerian works in the context of sexual geographies and colonizing and postcolonizing discourses. It comes at a time when critical methodology is being debated and a variety of approaches to Chacuer studies using modes of analyses normally reserved for later periods, including Said's orientalism theories, Dollimore's transgressive proximity and new French feminism. Moreover, the book fits well into the new emphasis in the Chaucer curriculum on globalism and multiculturalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415930017
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/26/2002
Series:	Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time , #5
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathryn Lynch, PhD, is Professor and Chair of English at Wellesley College. She is a graduate of Stamford and received her PhD in English from the University of Virginia. She is the author of numerous articles and reviews on Chaucer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction Kathryn L. Lynch 1

Selected Bibliography 17

Orientalism and the Critical History of the Squire's Tale Kenneth Bleeth 21

Domesticating the Exotic in the Squire's Tale John M. Fyler 32

The Historical Basis of Chaucer's Squire's Tale Vincent J. DiMarco 56

East Meets West in Chaucer's Squire's and Franklin's Tales Kathryn L. Lynch 76

Orientation and Nation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Suzanne Conklin Akbari 102

Scientific Imagery in Chaucer [The Canon's Yeoman's Tale] Dorothee Metutzki 135

The Canterbury Tales and the Arabic Frame Tradition Katharine Slater Gittes 152

Criticism, Anti-Semitism, and the Prioress's Tale Louise O. Fradenburg 174

Mappae Mundi and "The Knight's Tale": The Geography of Power, the Technology of Control Sylvia Tomasch 193

Geographies of Desire: Orientalism in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women Sheila Delany 225

Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale Susan Schidanoff 248

Chaucer and Englishness Derek Pearsall 281

Index 303