Barbara Nolan

(1978)
Robert C. Taylor Professor
Medieval Literature

Degrees

Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1967
M.A. Wisconsin, 1963
B.A. Trinity, 1962

Books

  • Chaucer and the Tradition of the Roman Antique. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  • The Gothic Visionary Perspective. Princeton University Press, 1977.

Articles

  • "Playing Parts: Props, Texts, Bodies, and the Mystery of Love in the Miller's Tale" in Festschrift for V.A. Kolve (in press).
  • "Anthologizing Ribaldry: Five Anglo-Normal Fabliaux" in Essays on B.L. MS. Harley 2253, ed. Susanna Fein, pp. 287-325 (in press).
  • "Promiscuous Fictions: Medieval Bawdy Tales and their Textual Liaisons," in The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature, ed. Piero Boitani and Anna Torti (Woodbridge, Suffolk:Boydell and Brewer, 1999), pp.79-105.
  • "Turning over the Leaves of Medieval Fabliau-Anthologies: The Case of Bibliotheque Nationale ms francais 2173," Medieval Perspectives 8 (1998), 1-31.
  • "Sir Thomas Malory's Tale of Sir Lancelot and Tale of Sir Gareth" in A Campanion to Malory Studies (D.S. Brewer: 1996).
  • "Chaucer's Tales of Transcendence: Rhyme Royal and Christian Prayer in the Canterbury Tales," in Chaucer's Religious Tales, ed. C.D. Benson and E. Robertson (1990).
  • "Ovid's Heroides Contextualized: Foolish Love and Legitimate Marriage in the Roman d'Eneas," Mediaevalia (1988 [for 1987]).
  • "Dante's Vergil, the Liberal Arts, and the Ascent to God," in Allegoresis, ed. J. S. Russell (1988) "'A Poet Ther Was:' Chaucer's Voices in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales," PMLA (1986).
  • "The Art of Expropriation: Chaucer's Narrator in the Book of the Duchess," in New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism, ed. Donald Rose (1981).

Honors

  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1978
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grants 1968, 1978
  • ACLS Grant-in-Aid, 1972
  • Fulbright Scholar, London University, 1965-1966