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 the literary that could embody a ethos of engaged, worldly consensus and make that consensus available to imaginative and rational consideration. And their reflections on the enterprise of literary study found a rational way, free of cant, to understand the work of the literary scholar. This volume reprints eight essays: āThe Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II,ā āChaucer's 'New Men' and the Good of Literature in the Canterbury Tales,ā āThe Physician's Tale and Love's Martyrs: 'Ensamples Mo than Ten' as a Method in the Canterbury Tales,ā āThe Clerk and His Tale: Some Literary Contexts,ā āNarration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in Piers Plowman,ā āMaking a Good End: John But as a Reader of Piers Plowman,ā āWilliam Langland's 'Kynde Name': Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England,ā āLife in the Margins, or, What's an Annotator to Do?ā It includes one essay previously unpublished, āPlaying the Plowman: Legends of Fourteenth-Century Authorship.ā
This book title, Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History, ISBN: 9781138382633, by Anne Middleton, edited by Steven Justice, published by Taylor & Francis (June 12, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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