Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Patterson, Lee.
Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature
- Published
- Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
- Description
- Considers "political agendas" that governed the development of Chaucer scholarship and textual criticism and analyzes medieval studies in terms of current theories about historicism. CT bears "a privileged relation" to the historic moment. Chapters on "Piers Plowman," TC, "Roman d'Eneas," "Erec et Enide," and the alliterative "Mort Arthure."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Troilus and Criseyde