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This New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer brings together preeminent scholars from around the world and adopts a novel approaching, beginning with the basics: Chaucer's words. Each chapter explores a single word from the Chaucerian corpus to develop readings that extend across the author's works. Without being limited to a particular text or theoretical approach, contributors model scholarly thinking in action, posing questions and offering analyses from textual, theoretical, historical, and material approaches. The result is a comprehensive collection of essays that illuminates Chaucer's aesthetics, philosophical complexity, and continued relevance. Part innovative scholarship, part how-to manual, the volume includes apparatus to help less experienced readers of Chaucer negotiate its contents. In addition to fourteen main essays, the volume also includes three response essays, each modelling how a seasoned scholar uses the chapters to develop his or her own thinking about Chaucer. Thus, the companion offers something to audiences of all levels who wish to read, research, and enjoy Chaucer, his language, and his works. Front Cover -- Half-title -- Companions -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- References and Abbreviations -- Foreword: Chaucer's Singular Vocabulary -- Front matter -- Introduction -- Geoffrey Chaucer: A Cultural and Linguistic Biography -- Chaucer Studies: Theoretical Questions and Points of Focus -- Aesthetics and Form in Chaucer -- Affect, Emotions, and the Mind in Chaucer -- English versus European Chaucer -- Gender and Sexuality Studies and Chaucer -- Nature and Nonhuman Entities in Chaucer -- Philosophical Chaucer -- Political and Ethical Chaucer -- Post- historicism and Chaucer -- Racial and Religious Difference and Chaucer -- Reception Studies and Chaucer -- Religion and Chaucer -- Sources for Chaucer -- How to Use This Book -- For Students -- For Instructors -- For Scholars -- Bibliography -- PART ONE -- Consent/ Assent -- Bibliography -- Entente -- The Friar's Tale -- Troilus and Criseyde -- Chaucer's Entente -- Chaucer and the Fleet Street Friar -- Bibliography -- Pite -- The Man of Law's Tale: The Limitations of Pity's Imagined Communities -- The Knight's Tale: Womanly Pity, Masculine Mercy, and a Gentil Right to Rule -- The Perils of Embodiment: Undercutting Pite as Emotive in the Merchant's Tale -- Womanly Feeling in the Squire's Tale: Pite's Hold and Female Homosociality -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Slider -- Bibliography -- Response: Consent, Entente, Pite, Slider -- Bibliography -- PART TWO -- Merveille -- Marvels and Perspective in the Squire's Tale -- Marvels and Vision in the Franklin's Tale -- Marvels and Morality in the Clerk's Tale -- Conclusion: Chaucer's Marvels -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Virginite -- Bibliography -- Swiven -- Bibliography -- Craft -- Craft as Specialty: The Canterbury Tales -- Love- Craft in Stanzas: Anelida and Arcite and Troilus and Criseyde.
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