Chaucer's Cultural Geography

Kathryn L. Lynch

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135309596
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This compilation of new essays and essays published over the past fifty years explores Chaucer's experiences with the cultural other, especially Chaucer's relationship to Far Eastern, Islamic, and African sources. While studies of Chaucer's orientalism have heretofore focused on the Squire's Tale , Chaucer's Cultural Geography considers many different Chaucerian works in the context of sexual geographies and colonizing and postcolonizing discourses. It comes at a time when critical methodology is being debated and a variety of approaches to Chacuer studies using modes of analyses normally reserved for later periods, including Said's orientalism theories, Dollimore's transgressive proximity and new French feminism. Moreover, the book fits well into the new emphasis in the Chaucer curriculum on globalism and multiculturalism.

Index

A

Abu al-Qasim al-Iraqi, 139

Abu Said, 65–66

Abu’l Qasim al-Iraqi, 144

adab, 160, 164

Adam, 140, 207, 252–53

Adam, William, 63, 64

Aden, 58

Adenet le Rois, 61

aeneas, 6, 154, 236–39

Aeneid, 37, 266

aesthetics, 161, 170

Africa, 28, 58–59, 73n. 31, 78, 84, 195, 197, 198, 203, 226, 296; North, 62, 66, 226

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, 9, 28

al-Khwarizmi, 157

al-Razi, 139–41, 144–45

Al-Zarqali, 91

alchemical: knowledge, 37–38; language, 167; literature, 136–37, 142, 144, 146; Platonic dialogue, 142–43; tradition, 10, 135–51

alchemists, 139–40; Latin, 146

alchemy, 41–42, 135–51; Arabic treatises on, 140–41, 147n. 5, 149n. 31; Christianity and, 142–44; code of secrecy of, 136, 44; idiom of, 143–44; Latin treatises on, 139, 41, 149n. 31; use of allegory in, 136–37, 139–41, 146

Alexander the Great, 26, 195

Alexandria, 62, 66, 69n. 5, 70n. 12, 86, 228

Alhambra, the, 161

alienation, 34, 42, 49

Allah, 66, 143

Amazons, the, 108

America, 296

Americaness, 296

Americans, 296

Anderson, Benedict, 112, 117, 129n. 49, 130n. 57, 131n. 79, 288, 301n. 70

Andreas Capel...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
• ORIENTALISM AND THE CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE SQUIRE'S TALE
• DOMESTICATING THE EXOTIC IN THE SQUIRE'S TALE
• THE HISTORICAL BASIS OF CHAUCER'S SQUIRE'S TALE
• EAST MEETS WEST IN CHAUCER'S SQUIRE'S AND FRANKLIN'S TALES
• ORIENTATION AND NATION IN CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES
• SCIENTIFIC IMAGERY IN CHAUCER [THE CANON'S YEOMAN'S TALE]
• THE CANTERBURY TALES AND THE ARABIC FRAME TRADITION
• CRITICISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND THE PRIORESS'S TALE
• MAPPAE MUNDI AND "THE KNIGHT'S TALE": THE GEOGRAPHY OF POWER, THE TECHNOLOGY OF CONTROL
• GEOGRAPHIES OF DESIRE: ORIENTALISM IN CHAUCER'S LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN
• WORLDS APART: ORIENTALISM, ANTIFEMINISM, AND HERESY IN CHAUCER'S MAN OF LAW'S TALE
• CHAUCER AND ENGLISHNESS
• INDEX