| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 278 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge collections online |
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Cambridge companions complete collection |
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Cambridge companions to literature and classics |
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Cambridge collections online
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Cambridge companions complete collection
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Cambridge companions to literature and classics
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| Contents |
Introduction / Larry Scanlon -- Re-inventing the vernacular: Middle English language and its literature / Wendy Scase -- Textual production and textual communities / Richard Firth Green -- Religious writing: hagiography, pastoralia, devotional and contemplative works / Richard Newhauser -- Romance / Christine Chism -- Dialogue, debate, and dream vision / Steven F. Kruger -- Drama / Sarah Beckwith -- Lyric / Ardis Butterfield -- Lollard writings / Rita Copeland -- William Langland / Ralph Hanna -- The Gawain-poet / Sarah Stanbury -- John Gower / Diane Watt -- Geoffrey Chaucer / Larry Scanlon -- Julian of Norwich / Lynn Staley -- Thomas Hoccleve / Ethan Knapp -- John Lydgate / James Simpson -- Margery Kempe / Rebecca Krug -- Sir Thomas Malory / David Wallace -- Robert Henryson / Sally Mapstone |
| Summary |
This companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history of literature in England. Exploring the period's key authors, the book offers an overview of the riches of medieval writing |
| Notes |
Title from home page (viewed Mar. 7, 2011) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-278) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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English Literature.
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English literature -- Middle English.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scanlon, Larry
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| ISBN |
113900252X (electronic bk.) |
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9781139002523 (electronic bk.) |
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(pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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