Name: Chaucer to Spenser By Derek Pearsall
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Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader by Derek Pearsall

This collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 --1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period.

About Derek Pearsall

Derek Pearsall is the Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University and was Professor and Co--Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, 1965--85. His numerous publications include Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology (1999) and The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (1992) both available from Blackwell. He is also the author of John Lydgate (1970), Old English and Middle English Poetry (1977), The Canterbury Tales: A Critical Study (1985), An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Langland (1990).

Preface. Notes on Contributors. 1. The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman: David Aers. 2. The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions: Mary Carruthers. 3. Eunuch Hermeneutics: Carolyn Dinshaw. 4. Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer: Elizabeth Fowler. 5. At the Table of the Great: Morea s Self--Fashioning and Self--Cancellation: Stephen Greenblatt. 6. The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings: Roland Greene. 7. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Jill Mann. 8. William Langlanda s Kynde Name: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth--Century England: Anne Middleton. 9. Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism: Lee Patterson. 10.a Abject odiousa : Feminine and Masculine in Henrysona s Testament of Cresseid: Felicity Riddy. 11. Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles da Orleans: A. C. Spearing. 12. False Fables and Historical Truth: Paul Strohm. Index.

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Title

Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader by Derek Pearsall

Author

Derek Pearsall

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Blackwell Critical Reader

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John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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19991112

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348

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Chaucer to Spenser Derek Pearsall

Chaucer to Spenser by Derek Pearsall

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