A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Lambdin, Laura Cooner, and Robert Thomas Lambdin, eds.

Title
A Companion to Old and Middle English Literature

Published
Westport, Conn.; and London : Greenwood, 2002.

Physical Description
xiv, 433 pp.

Description
Nineteen chapters by various authors, each addressing a literary genre by defining it, discussing representative examples, and surveying appropriate criticism (with selected bibliography). References to Chaucer recur throughout, especially in chapters pertaining to beast fable (Brian Gastle), dream vision (Kevin Marti), fabliau (Marie Nelson and Richard Thomson), parody/burlesque (Keith P. Taylor), and romance (Carolyn Craft).

Contributor
Lambdin, Robert Thomas, ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.