Middle English Literature: A Cultural History
- Author / Editor
- Cannon, Christopher.
Middle English Literature: A Cultural History
- Published
- Malden, Mass.: Polity, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xi, 256 pp.
- Series
- Cultural History of Literature.
- Description
- Surveys the forms, topics, and contexts of Middle English writing, clarifying its construction from various literary traditions set against a number of social, economic, and political conditions. The discussion is divided into five broad categories (Technology, Insurgency, Statecraft, Place, and Jurisdiction). The appendices include suggestions for further reading, a chronology, notes and bibliography, and an index. Cannon refers to Chaucer and his works frequently, emphasizing Chaucer's self-fashioning and how it was viewed by subsequent writers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism