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Book SynopsisA collection of twelve illustrated essays modeling innovative approaches to reading Chaucer’s visual poetics. Essays explore connections between Chaucer’s texts and various forms of visual data, medieval and modern, that can deepen and inform our understanding of Chaucer’s poetry.
Trade Review“Chaucer: Visual Approaches offers a diverse and stimulating set of essays that challenges its readers to consider anew Chaucer's way(s) of seeing his world and our way(s) of 'seeing' Chaucer. Professors Fein and Raybin, scholars of lively mind and commendable dedication to the service of their profession, have once again put Chaucerians in their debt by shepherding this innovative collection into print.”
—Robert W. Hanning,author of Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
“With arresting and beautiful illustrations and powerful explorations of ‘intervisuality’ by leading scholars, Chaucer: Visual Approaches is a welcome expansion of the way we see both Chaucer’s works and Chaucer’s world.”
—Carolynn Van Dyke,author of Chaucer’s Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative
“This richly illustrated new collection of essays demonstrates the great range of ways in which visual images are significant to Chaucer’s writings. Dealing with images drawn in words, evoked by words, and made by words on the page, the essays remind us of the scope for original work in this exciting area. The collection has illuminated for me some of the imaginative processes that take place as we read.”
—Julia Boffey,coeditor of A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
“Susanna Fein and David Raybin, consummate Chaucerians, have drawn together one of the most compelling collections of essays I have seen on Chaucer in recent years. . . . Essay after essay, including each of their own, shapes a sparklingly original argument based on a wealth of visual material: the profusion of images, new arguments, and deeply researched manuscript observation offers insights on every page. We do not just read Chaucer freshly, we see his imagination at work and are sent back to his writing to rediscover its rich colors for ourselves.”
—Ardis Butterfield,author of The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Preface . Chaucer: Visual Approaches / Susanna Fein and David Raybin
Acknowledgments
I. WAYS OF SEEING
1 Intervisual Texts, Intertextual Images: Chaucer and the Luttrell Psalter / Ashby Kinch
2 Creative Memory and Visual Image in Chaucer’s House of Fame / Alexandra Cook
3 “Quy la?”: The Counting-House, the Shipman’s Tale, and Architectural Interiors / Sarah
Stanbury
4 The Vernon Paternoster Diagram, Medieval Graphic Design, and the Parson’s Tale /
Kathryn Vulić
II. CHAUCERIAN IMAGESCAPES
5 Standing under the Cross in the Pardoner’s and Shipman’s Tales / Susanna Fein
6 Disfigured Drunkenness in Chaucer, Deschamps, and Medieval Visual Culture / Laura Kendrick
7 The Franklin’s Tale and the Sister Arts / Jessica Brantley
8 Miracle Windows and the Pilgrimage to Canterbury / David Raybin
III. CHAUCER ILLUSTRATED
9 Translating Iconography: Gower, Pearl, Chaucer, and the Rose / Joyce Coleman
10 “Qui bien ayme a tarde oblie”: Lemmata and Lists in the Parliament of Fowls /
Martha Rust
11 The Visual Semantics of Ellesmere: Gold, Artifice, and Audience / Maidie Hilmo
12 Drawing Out a Tale: Elizabeth Frink’s Etchings Illustrating Chaucer’s “Canterbury
Tales” / Carolyn P. Collette
Notes
Bibliography
Editors and Contributors
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
