Lee W. Patterson

Lee W. Patterson (May 14, 1940 – June 29, 2012) was an American medievalist, primarily of Chaucer. He finished his PhD at Yale in 1968,[1] then taught at the University of Toronto, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and Yale.[2] He retired from Yale as Frederick W. Hilles Professor Emeritus of English in 2009.[3] He is known for his historicist approach to medieval literature,[2] which "transformed the field."[4]

While at the University of Toronto, he was involved with an Ontario Tenants' Association and the Ontario New Democratic Party.[5]

Books

  • Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature (1987)
  • Chaucer and the Subject of History (1991); awarded Christian Gauss Prize for the Best Book of Literary Criticism by Phi Beta Kappa[2]
  • Putting the Wife in Her Place (1995) William Matthews Lectures. London: Birkbeck College
  • Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in the Canterbury Tales (2006) New York: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Acts of Recognition: Essays on Medieval Culture (2009) Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press

Further reading

  • A full bibliography is available in Raybin, David; Fein, Susanna (2014). "Introduction". The Chaucer Review. 48 (4): 353–360. doi:10.5325/chaucerrev.48.4.0353. ISSN 1528-4204.

References

  1. ^ "Yale College Class of 1962: Obituaries: Lee W. Patterson". yale62.org. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
  2. ^ a b c Raybin, David; Fein, Susanna (2014). "Introduction". The Chaucer Review. 48 (4): 353–360. doi:10.5325/chaucerrev.48.4.0353. ISSN 1528-4204.
  3. ^ "Lee Patterson | Faculty of Arts and Sciences". fas.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
  4. ^ Barrington, Candace. "In Memoriam: Lee Patterson". Retrieved 2024-08-14.
  5. ^ "In Memoriam: Lee W. Patterson". YaleNews. 2012-07-03. Retrieved 2024-08-14.


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