Description: "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"--
Brief description: Susanna Fein is Professor of English Emerita at Kent State University. Her most recent book is The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II).
Review Quotes:
"Chaucer and Trauma demonstrates Geoffrey Chaucer's sensitivity to both trauma and those traumatized, a timely reorientation of his reputation as someone who inflicted trauma. By extending the applicability of trauma studies to the late-medieval period, this groundbreaking collection helps us listen to survivors of trauma, then and now."
--Candace Barrington, coeditor of Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature