English Literature in the Age of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Mehl, Dieter.
English Literature in the Age of Chaucer
- Published
- Harlow, England ;
- New York : Longman, 2001.
- Physical Description
- xii, 252 pp.
- Series
- Longman Literature in English Series.
- Description
- Surveys fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Middle Scots literature (excluding drama), with individual chapters dedicated to Chaucer, Gower, Langland, the Gawain poet, Lydgate and Hoccleve, the lyric, Middle Scots (James I, Robert Holland, Henryson, Dunbar, and Douglas), and Middle English prose (Mandeville's Travels, mystics, Margery Kempe, and Malory). Includes a timeline, bibliographies for each section, and a subject index. The treatment of Chaucer (pp. 8-59) emphasizes his adaptability and the open-ended vitality of his poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.