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ENG250: Chaucer in the Library
Fall 2008 - N. Bradbury
reference contact: Bruce Sajdak x2967

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FINDING BACKGROUND ON CHAUCER

Reference Source Reference Call Number
Middle English Compendium - Definitions of Middle English words click here
All Things Chaucer: an encyclopedia of Chaucer’s world ref PR 1903 .R55 2007
Chaucer: An Oxford Guide ref PR 1924 .C39 2005
Cambridge Companion to Chaucer click here

Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide to Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, & Mythological Names in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

ref PR 1903 .D4 1988
Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide
ref PR 1875 .O26 C48 1996
Companion to Chaucer (Blackwell Reference Online) click here
New Catholic Encyclopedia ref BX 841 .N44 2003
Oxford Companion to Chaucer ref PR 1903 .A53 2006
Oxford Guide to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
ref PR 1874 .C64 1991
Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer ref PR 1903 .A53 2006

SAVING TIME : USING BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Use one or two of these printed bibliographies before you use any electronic indexes.

Reference Source Call Number
Riverside Chaucer PR 1851 .B46 1987
The Essential Chaucer
(For an online version click HERE)
ref PR 1905 .A43 1987
Chaucer: A Bibliographical Introduction PR 1905 .L49 1986
Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1986-1996 ref PR 1905 .B69 2002
Bibliography of Chaucer, 1974-1985 PR 1905 .B275 1988
Chaucer (A Goldentree Bibliography) ref Z 8164 .B33 1977
Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales PR 1868 .P93 E3 1990
Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales PR 1905 .C42 1997
Chaucer's Knight's Tale PR 1868 .K63 M3 1991
Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale PR 1868 .P33 C43 2000

Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue & Tale: An Annotated Bibliography

PR 1868 .W7 C38 1998

FINDING PERIODICAL ARTICLES ON CHAUCER

USING INDEXES

Chaucer Bibliography Online 1975+

JSTOR - back issues excluding the most recent 2-5 years

MLA Bibliography 1926+

International Medieval Bibliography 1967+

IMPORTANT PERIODICALS

These two periodicals are devoted to Chaucer and his England. Look at recent issues to find out what is being written about Chaucer at this point in time.

  • Chaucer Review
    per PR 1901 .C35 (For current issues, click HERE.)

  • Studies in the Age of Chaucer
    PR 1901 .S78

WEB SITES

Beware!!! You will NOT find many scholarly essays on the Web. For electronic texts of poems with some extra information try:

Chaucer Metapage (University of North Carolina)

Canterbury Tales selections read in Middle English (Virginia Military Institute)

William Caxton Chaucer Manuscripts (British Library)

CITING SOURCES

To get help with using MLA Style visit the Smith College Libraries' Style Manuals & Citation Guides page.

WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THIS LIBRARY CLASS?

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CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Bruce Sajdak, the instructor for your library session: bsajdak@email.smith.edu

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