Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Strohm, Paul, ed.
Middle English
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xii, 521 pp. 8 b&w figs.
- Series
- Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature.
- Description
- Twenty-nine essays by various authors, each essay with suggestions for further reading. The volume has three indices: Medieval Authors and Titles; Names; and Subject. It seeks "to avoid settled consensus in favour of unresolved debate, to prefer the emergent, the unfinalized, the yet-to-be done." Topics range widely, arranged in four groups: (1) Conditions and Contexts (manuscripts, audience, language); (2) Vantage Points (intellectual, theoretical, and emotional frames); (3) Textual Kinds and Categories (genres, liturgy, theology, humanism); and (4) Writing and the World (authorship, work, gossip). Chaucer is referred to throughout. For eleven essays that treat Chaucer in a sustained way, search for Middle English (Strohm) under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.