Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Gray, Douglas.
Middle English Literature
- Published
- Alan Deyermond, ed. A Century of British Medieval Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2007), pp. 383-426.
- Description
- Gray surveys the study of Middle English literature from the founding of the British Academy until the early twenty-first century, commenting on accomplishments of individual scholars up to World War II. He describes critical trends and how they reflect changes in social concerns, technology, advances in other fields, etc. Recurrent references to Chaucer and Chaucerians.
- Contributor
- Deyermond, Alan, ed.
- Alternative Title
- A Century of British Medieval Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2007.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.