Chaucer's Cultural Geography

Kathryn Lynch, PhD, is Professor and Chair of English at Wellesley College. She is a graduate of Stamford and received her PhD in English from the University of Virginia. She is the author of numerous articles and reviews on Chaucer.

Chapter 1 Orientalism and the Critical History of the Squire's Tale, KENNETH BLEETH; Chapter 2 Domesticating the Exotic in the Squire's Tale, JOHN M. FYLER; Chapter 3 The Historical Basis of Chaucer's Squire's Tale, VINCENT J. DIMARCO; Chapter 4 East Meets West in Chaucer's Squire's and Franklin's Tales, KATHRYN L. LYNCH; Chapter 5 Orientation and Nation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, SUZANNE CONKLIN AKBARI; Chapter 6 Scientific Imagery in Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, DOROTHEE METLITZKI; Chapter 7 The Canterbury Tales and the Arabic Frame Tradition, KATHARINE SLATER GITTES; Chapter 8 Criticism, Anti-Semitism, and the Prioress's Tale, LOUISE O. FRADENBURG; Chapter 9 Mappae Mundi and “The Knight's Tale”: The Geography of Power, the Technology of Control, TOMASCH SYLVIA; Chapter 10 Geographies of Desire: Orientalism in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women, SHEILA DELANY; Chapter 11 Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, SUSAN SCHIBANOFF; Chapter 12 Chaucer and Englishness, DEREK PEARSALL;