Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500

Informationen zum Autor Larry Scanlon is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Klappentext A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English. Zusammenfassung This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history of literature in English. Exploring the period's key authors and genres! the book offers an overview of the riches of medieval writing! with a chronology and guide to further reading. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction Larry Scanlon; Part I. Contexts, Genres, and Traditions: 1. Re-inventing English: Middle English language and its literature Wendy Scase; 2. Textual production and textual communities Richard Firth Green; 3. Religious writing: hagiography, pastoralia, devotional and contemplative works Richard Newhauser; 4. Romance Christine Chism; 5. Dialogue, debate, and dream vision Steven F. Kruger; 6. Drama Sarah Beckwith; 7. Lyric Ardis Butterfield; 8. Lollard writings Rita Copeland; Part II. Authors: 9. William Langland Ralph Hanna; 10. The Gawain-Poet Sarah Stanbury; 11. John Gower Diane Watt; 12. Geoffrey Chaucer Larry Scanlon; 13. Julian of Norwich Lynn Staley; 14. Thomas Hoccleve Ethan Knapp; 15. John Lydgate James Simpson; 16. Margery Kempe Rebecca Krug; 17. Sir Thomas Malory David Wallace; 18. Robert Henryson Sally Mapstone; Guide to further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Larry Scanlon, Larry (Rutgers University Scanlon
• Assisted by: Larry Scanlon (Editor), Scanlon Larry (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521841672
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84167-2
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval