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Derek Pearsall, ed.
Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Blackwell Critical Readers in Literature series.
ISBN 0631199373;
ISBN-13: 9780631199373.
Paperback, perfect bound.
151x228x25mm.
xviii,327pp inc. 1 monochrome illustration.
English.
Good to very good condition.This item £14.00
[Publisher's price £23.99/$54.95]
521g.
A collection of significant essays and extracts, mostly recent. Contents:
Aers, The humanity of Christ - reflections on orthodox late medieval representations; and, Representations in Wycliffite texts & Piers Plowman;
Carruthers, The Wife of bath & the painting of lions;
Dinshaw, Eunuch hermeneutics;
Fowler, Misogyny & economic person in Skelton, Langland & Chaucer;
Greenblatt, More's self-fashioning & self-cancellation;
Greene, The colonial Wyatt - contexts & openings;
Mann, Price & value in Sir Gawain & the Green Knight;
Middleton, Langland's "kynde name" - authorial signature & social identity in late 14th-c. England;
Patterson, Feminine & masculine in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid;
Spearing, Representing the subject in the English poems of Charles d'Orléans;
Strohm, False fables & historical truth.
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