Projected Table of Contents for the OA Canterbury Tales
¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales is a virtual volume created by an international team of scholarly contributors. Essay chapters discuss the tales and prologues of the Canterbury Tales in relation to topics of broad general interest. Reference chapters provide readers with important context and background for understanding and approaching the Tales. The first stage of the companion will feature one essay chapter for every major textual unit of the Tales; in the future, the companion will add additional seasons with new topical perspectives on each tale from different scholars.
Essay Chapters
¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 Cultural Crossings, Conflict, and Collaborations and the General Prologue by Elizabeth Scala
¶ 3 Leave a comment on paragraph 3 0 Social Networks and Connections and the Framing Narrative by David Hadbawnik
¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Brotherhood, Sisterhood, Friendship, and Fellowship in the Knight’s Tale by Christine Chism
¶ 5 Leave a comment on paragraph 5 0 Death, Disease, Illness, and Mortality in the Knight’s Tale by Julie Orlemanski
¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 Travel, Transit, and Journeys in the Miller’s Tale by Shayne Legassie
¶ 7 Leave a comment on paragraph 7 0 Protest, Complaint, and Uprising in the Miller’s Tale by Kathy Lavezzo
¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Wages, Work, Wealth, and Economic Inequality in the Reeve’s Tale by William Rhodes
¶ 9 Leave a comment on paragraph 9 0 Jokes, Jests, Pranks, and Play in the Cook’s Tale by Craig Bertolet
¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 Race and Racism in the Man of Law’s Tale by Cord J. Whitaker
¶ 11 Leave a comment on paragraph 11 0 Love and Marriage in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue by Emma Lipton
¶ 12 Leave a comment on paragraph 12 0 The Wife of Bath’s Tale by Carissa Harris
¶ 13 Leave a comment on paragraph 13 0 Animals in the Friar’s Tale by Karl Steel
¶ 14 Leave a comment on paragraph 14 0 Creating Gendered and Sexual Identities in the Summoner’s Tale by Ruth Evans
¶ 15 Leave a comment on paragraph 15 0 Authority (Familial, Political, Written) in the Clerk’s Tale by Susan Nakley
¶ 16 Leave a comment on paragraph 16 0 Landscape, Environment, and Nature in the Merchant’s Tale by Heide Estes
¶ 17 Leave a comment on paragraph 17 0 Subsistence (Farming, Agriculture, Food) in the Squire’s Tale by Alexis Kellner Becker
¶ 18 Leave a comment on paragraph 18 0 Emotion, Feeling, Intensity, and Pleasure in the Franklin’s Tale by Emily Houlik-Ritchey
¶ 19 Leave a comment on paragraph 19 0 Childhood and Children in the Physician’s Tale by Daniel T. Kline
¶ 20 Leave a comment on paragraph 20 0 The Body and Its Politics in the Pardoner’s Tale by Kim Zarins
¶ 21 Leave a comment on paragraph 21 0 Interpretation, Deciphering, Coding, and Confusion in the Shipman’s Tale by Jennifer Culver
¶ 22 Leave a comment on paragraph 22 0 Relating to the Past, Imagining the Past, and Using the Past in the Prioress’ Tale by Emily Steiner
¶ 23 Leave a comment on paragraph 23 0 Imagining the World in Maps and Stories in Sir Thopas by William Storm
¶ 24 Leave a comment on paragraph 24 0 Local Government: Power, Lordship, and Resources in the Tale of Melibee by Kate Fedewa
¶ 25 Leave a comment on paragraph 25 0 Ability/Disability in the Monk’s Tale by Jonathan Hsy
¶ 26 Leave a comment on paragraph 26 0 Entertainment versus Education in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale by Alex Mueller
¶ 27 Leave a comment on paragraph 27 0 Language Politics and Translation in the Second Nun’s Tale by Candace Barrington
¶ 28 Leave a comment on paragraph 28 0 Invention, Discovery, Problem-Solving, and Innovation in the Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue and Tale by Samantha Seal
¶ 29 Leave a comment on paragraph 29 0 Feminism and Women’s Experience in the Manciple’s Tale by Myra Seaman
¶ 30 Leave a comment on paragraph 30 0 Religious Devotion and Spiritual Feeling in the Parson’s Tale by Krista Murchison
¶ 31 Leave a comment on paragraph 31 0 Religious Debate and Polemic in the Retraction by Christopher Roman
Reference Chapters
¶ 32 Leave a comment on paragraph 32 0 What Does it Mean to Read a Text from Medieval England? by Moira Fitzgibbons and a group of contributors
¶ 33 Leave a comment on paragraph 33 0 Manuscripts and Manuscript Culture by Alexandra Gillespie
¶ 34 Leave a comment on paragraph 34 0 The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer by Bruce Holsinger
¶ 35 Leave a comment on paragraph 35 0 Chaucer’s Middle English by Simon Horobin
¶ 36 Leave a comment on paragraph 36 0 Daily Life in England c. 1390 by Kathleen E. Kennedy
¶ 37 Leave a comment on paragraph 37 0 Society and Politics in England c. 1340-1400 by Noelle Phillips