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The New Chaucer Society Seventh International Congress August 6-11, 1990 The University ofKent CANTERBURY 369 Program Tuesday, August 7 5:30 P.M.: Welcome-Vice-Chancellor, Dr. David Ingram (University of Kent) Wednesday, August 8 9-10:30 A.M.: Plenary Session A Pilgrimage *Peter Brown (University of Kent) Presiding: Andrew Butcher (University of Kent) Sarah Beckwith (Duke University): "Pilgrimage and Mobility of Context" ThomasJ. Elliott (California State University, Pomona): "TheJerusalem Pilgrimage of Felix Fabri" Stephen Medcalf (University of Sussex): "Motives for Pilgrimage" 10:30 A.M.: Discussion of plans for Ellesmere Chaucer facsimile Martin Stevens (Graduate Center, CUNY) and Daniel Woodward (Librarian, Huntington Library) 11-12:30 P.M.: Concurrent paper sessions 1) Historicisms Old and New *Sheila Delany (Simon Fraser University) Presiding: Thomas Hahn (University of Rochester) David Aers (University of East Anglia): "New and Old in Current Chaucer Criticism" Peggy Knapp (Carnegie Mellon University): "Some Observations on Historicist Interpretation" Miri Rubin (Pembroke College, Oxford University): "Between Historicism and Alterity: A Middle Way to Women's Religion" 2) Chaucer's Sense of an Ending Presiding: *Barbara Nolan (University of Virginia) Linda Tarte Holley (North Carolina State University): "Chaucer's Sense of an Ending and the Borders of Narrative" David Raybin (Eastern Illinois University): "'Every Man Semeth a Salomon': Open-ended Structure and Human Vision in The Canterbury Tales" 3) "Chaucer the Poet" and "Chaucer the Man" Presiding: *Lisa Kiser (Ohio State University) James M. Dean (University of Delaware): "In Our Own Images: The Recent Chaucer Biographies" *An asterisk indicates the organizer of the session. 371 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER Gregory B. Stone (Louisiana State University): "Chaucer the Poet and Chaucer the Man-in-Black" 1:30-3 P.M.: Concurrent paper sessions 4) Legal Themes in Chaucer Presiding: *Richard Firth Green (University of Western Ontario) George D. Gopan (Duke University): "The Influence of the Development ofContract Law on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" Theodore I. Silar (Lehigh University): "Symkin's Freehold in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale" Joseph A. Hornsby (University of Alabama): "The Contractual Structure of The Canterbury Tales" 5) Chaucer's Imagery in Illustration and Other Arts in the Post-Medieval World Presiding: *Donald C. Green (California State University, Bakersfield) Dolores Warwick Frese (University ofNotre Dame): "Chaucer's 'Thynne' Pilgrims: Visual Mouvance and the Order of the Tales in the First Collected Edition of 1532" Judith L. Fisher (Trinity University): "Chaucer as History: The Canterbury Tales in Charles Knight's Old England" Miriam Youngerman Miller (University ofNew Orleans): "Illustrations of The Canterbury Tales for Children: A Mirror ofChaucer's World?" Helen Cooper (University College, Oxford University): "Chaucer's Pilgrims in a Painting by Harry Mileham, F.S.R.A." 6) The History of Expression of Emotion Presiding: *Jill Mann (Girton College, Cambridge University) Stephen Barney (University ofCalifornia, Irvine): "Chaucerian Shame" Monica McAlpine (University of Massachusetts, Boston): "Scenes of Pity: Froissart, Benjamin West, Chaucer" Nina Dorrance (University of Virginia): "Wordsworth's Mute Lucy and Chaucer'sSinging Clergeon: An Approach to Sentimentality in Literature" 3:15-4:45 P.M.: Concurrent paper sessions 7) Psyche, Culture, Difference Presiding: *John M. Ganim (University ofCalifornia, Riverside) Hope Weissman (Wesleyan University): "The Reeve's Head and the Reeve's Taille: Nietzschean Ressentiment and Chaucer" Daniel Rubey (Herbert Lehman, CUNY): "Dreaming History: Disintegration, Myth, and Primal Scenes in Troilus and Criseyde" Yasunari Takada (University of Tokyo): "Libidinous Dissemination in Chaucer" 8) Fabricating the Book *Seth Lerer (Princeton University) 372 PROGRAM Presiding: A. S. G. Edwards (University of Victoria) Daniel W Mosser (Virginia Polytechnic University): "Commercialism and the Ordinatio of the Alpha Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales" Tim William Machan (Marquette University): '"As hokes specifye': Textual Authority and the Works of Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Henryson" John Block Friedman (University of Illinois): "Thomas Langley andJohn Newton: Fifteenth-Century Northern Book Patrons and Their Manuscripts" 9) "Lerned" Responses to Chaucer from Furnivall to the Founding of the New Chaucer Society Presiding: *Mark Allen (University of Texas, San Antonio) Juliette Dor (University of Liege): "Emile Legouis's Contribution" Brenda Sluder (University of Texas, Austin): "Attitudes Toward Scribal Practice from Furnivall to Ruggiers" Stephan Kohl (University of Bayreuth): "Chaucer in Scrutiny" 9 P.M.: "Chaucer's Canterbury" Tim Tatton-Brown (former Director, Canterbury Archaeological Trust...

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