A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Corrie, Marilyn, ed.

Title
A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature

Published
Oxford: Blackwell: 2007; Reissued as a print-on-demand volume, Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Physical Description
xii, 268 pp. 3 b&w illus.

Series
Blackwell Concise Companions to Literature and Culture.

Description
Eleven essays on topics concerning late medieval English literature and its contexts: Signs and Symbols (Barry Windeatt), Religious Belief (Marilyn Corrie), Women and Literature (Catherine Sanok), The Past (Andrew Galloway), Production and Dissemination (Alexandra Gillespie), The Author (Jane Griffiths), Language (Jeremy J. Smith), Translation and Adaptation (Helen Cooper), Contemporary Events (Helen Barr), Manuscripts and Modern Editions (Daniel Wakelin), and The Afterlife of Middle English Literature (David Matthews). The index lists numerous references to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism