Old and Middle English Literature (c.700-1485)
- Author / Editor
- Burrow, J. A.
Old and Middle English Literature (c.700-1485)
- Published
- Pat Rogers, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 1-58.
- Description
- Illustrated survey of Old and Middle English literature, with recurrent attention to linguistic conditions and the development of literary genres and conventions. Includes many comparative references to Chaucer in the discussion of Middle English literature, with a sustained comparison of Chaucer and Gower as "courtly makers" (pp. 39-50).
- Reprinted without illustrations in Pat Rogers, ed. An Outline of English Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 1-57.
- Contributor
- Rogers, Pat, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
- Outline of English Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations