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Chaucer and Trauma

Edited by Susanna Fein, Edited by David Raybin

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Trauma is an inescapable condition of Chaucerâ€™s works. From the ravaging of Troy and the abandonment of Dido to the devastating aftereffects of sexual assault, Chaucer portrayed the most unsettling, searing aspects of human experience. While the term â€œtraumaâ€ was not part of Chaucerâ€™s vocabulary, the author was assuredly aware of its causes and consequences, its victims and symptoms. This timely volume explores depictions of violence, victimhood, and overwhelming grief or loss in Chaucerâ€™s most ambitious texts, Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales. The authors examine layers of deep emotional suffering in Chaucerâ€™s works, as well as those forces that perpetrate injustices against human beings. The essays scrutinize Chaucerâ€™s narratives through close textual analysis and modern theoretical approaches, offering original perspectives and treating subjects relevant to contemporary concernsâ€”rape, domestic violence, slavery, forced consent, family separation, natural catastrophe, pandemic, and more. Written by leading voices in the field, Chaucer and Trauma is designed to introduce readers of Chaucer to a topic of intense present interest. Along with the volume editors, the contributors include Sarah Baechle, David K. Coley, Suzanne M. Edwards, Carissa M. Harris, Matthew W. Irvin, Kate Koppelman, Samuel F. McMillan, and Lynn Staley.