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Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
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23 June 2026

LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: poetry and poets
'This collection will interest all readers of Chaucer. It is a fitting tribute, in the range and
quality of its scholarship, to Stephanie Trigg, author of the great Congenial Souls (2001)… This book is a celebration of a great scholar, put together with care, containing scholarship of permanent value.'
Renaissance Quarterly
Introduction – Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry and Melissa Raine
1 Identifying, and identifying with, Chaucer – Paul Strohm
2 First encounter: ‘snail horn perception’ in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde – Elizabeth Robertson
3 Sir Thopas’s mourning maidens – Helen Cooper
4 Chaucerian rhyme-breaking – Ruth Evans
5 ‘Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face?’ – Stephanie Downes
6 Heavy atmosphere – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
7 Hunting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Frank Grady
8 The implausible plausibility of the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn – Thomas A. Prendergast
9 Caxton in the middle of English – David Matthews
10 ‘Hail graybeard bard’: Chaucer in the nineteenth-century popular consciousness – Stephen Knight
11 Chaucer as Catholic child in nineteenth-century English reception – Andrew Lynch
12 Flesh and stone: William Morris’s News from Nowhere and Chaucer’s dream visions – John M. Ganim
13 ‘In remembrance of his persone’: transhistorical empathy and the Chaucerian face – Louise D’Arcens
14 Textual face: cognition as recognition – James Simpson
Index