Some Recent Scholarship on "Clerk's Tale" and "Merchant's Tale"

"ClT"

Raby, Michael.  "The Clerk's Tale and the Forces of Habit." Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism  47:3 (2013): 223-246.  [Subject Terms: treatment of habit (behavior) Web.  MLA Bibliography.  Electronic Access: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/chaucer_review/v047/47.3.raby.html

 Schwebel, Leah.  "Redressing Griselda: Restoration through Translation in the Clerk's Tale." Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism  47:3 (2013) 274-299.  Subject Terms: relationship to Latin language translation; of Boccaccio, Giovanni (ca. 1313-1375): Il Decameron (ca. 1348-53); in Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374); Epistolae Seniles (1361-74); source study

"MerchT"

Seal, Samantha Katz.  "Pregnant Desire: Eyes and Appetites in the Merchant's Tale." Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism 48:3 (2014) 284-306. Subject Terms: visual metaphor; treatment of desire; appetite; relationship to pregnancy; sin

Sheridan, Christian.  "May in the Marketplace: Commodification and Textuality in the Merchant's Tale." Studies in Philology.  102:1 (2005 Winter) 27-44. Subjects: textuality; commodification

Wicher, Andrzej.  "Geoffrey Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio's The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives."   Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 3 (2013): 42-57.  Subject Terms: treatment of sexual desire; husband-wife relations; the supernatural; compared to Boccaccio, Giovanni (ca. 1313-1375): Il Decameron (ca. 1348-53); Sir Orfeo