Dyke, Carolynn
Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts
1. Introduction:
Carolynn Dyke
Part I. The Natural Creature
2. Among All Beasts: Affective Naturalism in Late Medieval England
Aranye Fradenburg
3. Feathering the Text
Carol Freeman
4. Shrews, Rats, and a Polecat in “The Pardoner’s Tale”
Sandy Feinstein, Neal Woodman
Part II. Animal Lessons
5. Chaucer’s Chicks: Feminism and Falconry in “The Knight’s Tale,” “The Squire’s Tale,” and
Sara Gutmann
6. Foiled by Fowl: The Squire’s Peregrine Falcon and the Franklin’s Dorigen
Lorraine Kochanske Stock
7. That Which Chargeth Not to Say: Animal Imagery in
Carolynn Dyke
Part III. Becoming-Animal
8. Avian Hybridity in “The Squire’s Tale”: Uses of Anthropomorphism
Sara Deutch Schotland
9. Reimagining Natural Order in “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”
Laura Wang
10. Contemplating Finitude: Animals in
Christopher Roman
Part IV. Contested Boundaries
11. Animal Agency, The Black Knight, and the Hart in
Ryan R. Judkins
12. “A Beest May Al His Lust Fulfille”: Naturalizing Chivalric Violence in Chaucer’s “Knight’s Tale”
Jeremy Withers
13. A Fourteenth-Century Ecology: “The Former Age” With Dindimus
Karl Steel
Part V. Cross-Species Discourse
14. Chaucer’s Chauntecleer and Animal Morality
Megan Palmer Browne
15. Talking Animals, Debating Beasts
Wendy A. Matlock
16. Species Or Specious? Authorial Choices and
Melissa Ridley Elmes
17. Chaucer’s Cuckoo and the Myth of Anthropomorphism
Lesley Kordecki
18. Afterword: Gender, Genre, Genus
Carolynn Dyke
Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Anthropology, Literary History
- Editor
- Dyke, Carolynn
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Page amount
- 299 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137040732
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-34161-0