Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages: Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Joseph.
Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages: Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature.
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 254 pp.
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature.
- Description
- Examines "the North as a regional concept in the literature of medieval England," considering a range of texts from Bede's "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum" to the Towneley plays. Chapter 4, "Chaucer's Northern Consciousness in the 'Reeve's Tale'," surveys the presence of northern England in CT and focuses the use of northern dialect in RvT as "symptomatic of a larger engagement with the region's long-standing cultural identity as an uncanny presence in England's national story."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer’s Northern Consciousness in the "Reeve's Tale"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale