Geoffrey Chaucer A New Introduction

David Wallace studied at York and Cambridge. Currently Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, he has held visiting positions at Jerusalem, Melbourne, London, and Princeton. He has served as President of the New Chaucer Society, is currently Second Vice President of the Medieval Academy of America, and has made a series of documentaries for BBC Radio 3. He most recently published Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (2016) and Strong Women (2012).

1. Beginnings
2. Schoolrooms, science, female intuition
3. A life in poetry
4. Poetry at last: Troilus and Criseyde
5. Organizing, disorganizing: The Canterbury Tales
6. Something to believe in
7. Afterlife, drama, futures
References
Further Reading
Index