Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship
- Author / Editor
- Justice, Steven, and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, eds.
Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
- Physical Description
- x, 347 pp.
- Description
- Includes an introduction by Justice, five essays by various authors, and an edition and translation of the "autobiographical" passage in "Piers Plowman" (C-text, "passus" 5.1-104).
- All the essays take the passage as a point of departure, exploring the cultural and social conditions of authorship and literary self-representation in late-medieval England. "Written Work" includes many references to Chaucer, especially to Chaucer's familiarity with Langland's work and to the two authors' techniques of self-representation.
- Contributor
- Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.