Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Gray, Douglas.

Title
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.