1st Edition

Reading Geoffrey Chaucer An Introduction

By Robert J. Meyer-Lee Copyright 2025
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works’ deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day. Each chapter connects Chaucer’s world with particular problems of our own, such as autocratic patriarchal social orders and... Read more

Preface: User Manual for This Book

Introduction: Why Read Chaucer Now?            

Chapter 1: The Canterbury Tales: Overview and General Prologue                  

Chapter 2: The Knight’s and Miller’s Tales  

Chapter 3: The Man of Law’s Tale      

Chapter 4: The Wife of Bath’s Tale  

Chapter 5: The Pardoner’s Tale         

Chapter 6: The Prioress’s Tale           

Chapter 7: Dream Visions – The House of Fame and the Legend of Good Women                  

Chapter 8: Troilus and Criseyde      

Biography

Robert J. Meyer-Lee (PhD Yale, English) is Professor of English at Agnes Scott College. He is author of The Problem of Literary Value (2023), Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales (2019), and Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt (2007); editor (with Catherine Sanok) of The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form (2018); and author of numerous articles on Chaucer, fifteenth-century poetry, and literary value. He was an editor of JEGP and a trustee of the New Chaucer Society and is a recipient of the Medieval Academy Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize.