Introduction: failure, figure, reception Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica
Rosenfeld; Part I. The Failures of Form: 1. 'Many a lay and many a thing':
Chaucer's technical terms Jenni Nuttall; 2. Chaucer's aesthetic resources:
nature, longing, and economies of form Jennifer Jahner; 3. Against order:
medieval, modern, and contemporary critiques of causality Eleanor Johnson;
Part II. The Corporeality and Form: 4. Diverging forms: disability and the
Monk's Tales Jonathan Hsy; 5. Figures for 'Gretter knowing': forms in the
Treatise on the Astrolabe Lisa H. Cooper; 6. The heaviness of prosopoeial
form in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess Julie Orlemanski; Part III. The Forms
of Reception: 7. Reading badly: what the Physician's Tale isn't telling us
Thomas A. Prendergast; 8. Birdsong, love, and the House of Lancaster: Gower
reforms Chaucer Arthur Bahr; 9. Opening The Canterbury Tales: form and
formalism in the general prologue Stephanie Trigg.

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