1st Edition
Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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Anne Middleton's essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their 'crux-busting' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the nature of poetic discourse traced how the generation of Chaucer and Langland devised a category of... Read more
Contents: Publications of Anne Middleton; Introduction, Steven Justice; The idea of public poetry in the age of Richard II; Chaucer's 'new men' and the good of literature in the Canterbury Tales; The Physician's Tale and love's martyrs: 'ensamples mo than ten' as a method in the Canterbury Tales; The Clerk and his tale: some literary contexts; Playing the plowman: legends of 14th-century authorship; Narration and the invention of experience: episodic form in Piers Plowman; Making a good end: John But as a reader of Piers Plowman; William Langland's 'kynde name': authorial signature and social identity in late 14th-century England; Life in the margins, or, what's an annotator to do?
Biography
Anne Middleton is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Steven Justice is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
