1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: Community, Gender, and Individual Identity (1988) English Writing 1360-1430
By David Aers
Copyright 1988
226 Pages
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Routledge
First published in 1988, David Aers explores the treatment of community, gender, and individual identity in English writing between 1360 and 1430, focusing on Margery Kempe, Langland, Chaucer, and the poet of Sir Gawain . He shows how these texts deal with questions about gender, the making of individual identity, and competing versions of community in ways which still speak powerfully in... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Piers Plowman: Poverty, Work, and Community
2. The Making of Margery Kempe: Individual and Community
3. Masculine Identity in the Courtly Community: The Self-loving in Troilus and Criseyde
4. ‘In Arthurus Day’: Community, Virtue and Individual Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight;
Notes
Index
Biography
David Aers
