The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception
Published on 23. March 2006
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-84384-071-8 (ISBN)
Description
Essays re-examining the Legend of Good Women, placing it in its cultural and historical context.
The essays in this volume explore the context and reception of Chaucer's neglected The Legend of Good Women from a variety of late medieval cultural perspectives, verbal, political, and social, expanding our understanding of the web of poetic and cultural conventions in which the Legend was created and received. Topics addressed include the manuscript and print history of the poem (explored through performance theory, and in the context of erotic courtly games played by the aristocracy); the politics of Philippa of Lancaster's role in transmitting the flower and leaf topos from French literature into English; the connections between love and polity in the Prologue; the influence of stories of Amazons, Thebes, and Troy; and the ludic dimensions of the Legend.
CAROLYN P. COLLETTE is Professor of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College.
Contributors: WILLIAM A. QUINN, JOYCE COLEMAN, ROBERT R. EDWARDS, NANCY BRADLEY WARREN, BETSY MCCORMICK, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, JAMIE C. FUMO, NICOLA F. MCDONALD
The essays in this volume explore the context and reception of Chaucer's neglected The Legend of Good Women from a variety of late medieval cultural perspectives, verbal, political, and social, expanding our understanding of the web of poetic and cultural conventions in which the Legend was created and received. Topics addressed include the manuscript and print history of the poem (explored through performance theory, and in the context of erotic courtly games played by the aristocracy); the politics of Philippa of Lancaster's role in transmitting the flower and leaf topos from French literature into English; the connections between love and polity in the Prologue; the influence of stories of Amazons, Thebes, and Troy; and the ludic dimensions of the Legend.
CAROLYN P. COLLETTE is Professor of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College.
Contributors: WILLIAM A. QUINN, JOYCE COLEMAN, ROBERT R. EDWARDS, NANCY BRADLEY WARREN, BETSY MCCORMICK, SIMON MEECHAM-JONES, JAMIE C. FUMO, NICOLA F. MCDONALD
Reviews / Votes
A rigorous, substantial new contribution to our engagement with Chaucer's most allusive and elusive poem. The essays are provocative, well-written, well-annotated, serious, and responsibly sensitive to the important critical issues in the Legend, making a substantial contribution to our ongoing study of Chaucer's difficult poem. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84384-071-8 (9781843840718)
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Persons
CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College. CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College.
Content
Introduction - Carolyn P Collette
The Legend of Good Women: Performance, Performativity and Presentation - William A. Quinn
The Flower, the Leaf, and Philippa of Lancaster - Joyce Coleman
Ricardian Dreamwork: Chaucer, Cupid, and Loyal Lovers - Robert R. Edwards
`Olde Stories' and Amazons: The Legend of Good Women, the `Knight's Tale', and Fourteenth-Century Political Culture - Nancy Bradley Warren
Remembering the Game; Debating the Legend's Women - Betsy McCormick
Intention, Integrity and `Renoun': The Public Virtue of Chaucer's Good Women - Simon Meecham-Jones
The God of Love and the Love of God: Palinodic Exchange in the Prologue of the Legend of Good Women and the `Retraction' - Jamie C. Fumo
Games Medieval Women Play - Nicola F McDonald
The Legend of Good Women: Performance, Performativity and Presentation - William A. Quinn
The Flower, the Leaf, and Philippa of Lancaster - Joyce Coleman
Ricardian Dreamwork: Chaucer, Cupid, and Loyal Lovers - Robert R. Edwards
`Olde Stories' and Amazons: The Legend of Good Women, the `Knight's Tale', and Fourteenth-Century Political Culture - Nancy Bradley Warren
Remembering the Game; Debating the Legend's Women - Betsy McCormick
Intention, Integrity and `Renoun': The Public Virtue of Chaucer's Good Women - Simon Meecham-Jones
The God of Love and the Love of God: Palinodic Exchange in the Prologue of the Legend of Good Women and the `Retraction' - Jamie C. Fumo
Games Medieval Women Play - Nicola F McDonald