Reading Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Turville-Petre, Thorlac.
Reading Middle English Literature
- Published
- Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
- Physical Description
- ix, 211 pp. 11 b&w illus.
- Series
- Blackwell Introductions to Literature, no. 15.
- Description
- A survey of Middle English literature, designed to accompany the author's anthology "A Book of Middle English" (with J. A. Burrow; 3rd ed., 2005). Treats six topics: the English language; manuscripts, scribes, and audiences; literature and society, history and romance; piety; and love and marriage. Refers to Chaucer's works frequently and considers the following at greater length: PrT (with Pearl); RvT (and social tensions); PF (linguistic register and love); and TC (love and Criseyde's status).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.