Chaucer and trauma / edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin.

Other author Fein, Susanna, 1950- editor.
Other author Raybin, David B., 1951- editor.
Format Book
PublicationUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2025]
Description244 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Thinking plague and intergenerational trauma in the Canterbury Tales / David K. Coley -- Rape myth, trauma reality : reading survival in Chaucer's Reeve's tale / Sarah Baechle -- Motherhood interrupted : bodies, borders, and Chaucer's Griselda / Kate Koppelman -- Griselda as familial slave : trauma and caste in the Clerk's tale / Susanna Fein -- Claiming trauma : antifeminist backlash, gendered victimization, and shrewish rage / Carissa M. Harris -- The sublime trauma of Chaucer's Franklin's tale / Samuel F. McMillan -- Witnessing sexual violence in the tale of Melibee / Suzanne M. Edwards -- Criseyde and the nontraumatic kernel / Matthew W. Irvin -- Criseyde, the face of trauma / Lynn Staley.
Abstract "A collection of essays examining Chaucer's attention to violence, victimhood, abuse, and isolation in Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales. Using close textual analysis, original perspectives, and modern theoretical approaches, contributors explore subjects relative to contemporary concerns such as injustice, emotional suffering, violence, slavery, and catastrophe"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9780271100111
LCCN 2025002289
ISBN9780271099811
ISBN027109981X
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