1. A few representative entries in this vast bibliography might include Derek Pearsall, “Chaucer and Englishness,” Proceedings of the British Academy 101 (2000): 77–99.
2. Charles Muscatine, Chaucer and the French Tradition (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965);
3. David Wallace, Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999).
4. For a recent evaluation of Chaucer explicitly framed through the concept of cosmopolitanism, see John M. Ganim, “Cosmopolitan Chaucer, Or, the Uses of Local Culture,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 3–21.
5. These considerations were launched by the groundbreaking essay by Susan Schibanoff. See Susan Schibanoff, “Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer’s ‘Man of Law’s Tale,’” Exemplaria 8 (1996): 59–96; Carolyn Dinshaw, “Pale Faces: Race, Religion, and Affect in Chaucer’s Texts and Their Readers,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23 (2001): 19–41;