A Handbook of Middle English Studies.
- Author / Editor
- Turner, Marion, ed.
A Handbook of Middle English Studies.
- Published
- Chichester: Wiley, 2013.
- Physical Description
- xix, 444 pp.; 12 b&w figs.
- Series
- Wiley-Blackwell Critical Theory Handbooks.
- Description
- Twenty-six chapters by various authors, with an Introduction by the editor in which she emphasizes diverse theoretical approaches to Middle English studies and observes that Chaucer's texts "foreground the idea that readers construct texts" (3). Chapter topics include Imagination, Memory, Desire, Gender, Sexuality, Public Interiorities, Race, Animality, Authorship, Audience, Manuscript, Material Culture, Genre, Aesthetics, Canon Formation, Periodization, Sovereignty, Class, Church, City, Margins, Ecology, Nation, Language, Postcolonialism, and A Global Middle Ages. The volume includes an index with numerous references to Chaucer, For eleven essays that pertain Chaucer, search under A Handbook of Middle English Studies under Alternative Title.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference
Background and General Criticism