Chaucer's Cultural Geography

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. Chaucer's Cultural Geography considers many different Chaucerian works in the context of sexual geographies and colonizing and post-colonizing discourses. It comes at a time when critical methodology is being debated and a variety of approaches to Chaucer 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.Lynch, Kathryn L. is the author of 'Chaucer's Cultural Geography' with ISBN 9780415930017 and ISBN 0415930014.