Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

A handbook of Middle English studies / edited by Marion Turner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley-Blackwell critical theory handbooksPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781118328767 (ePub)
  • 1118328760 (ePub)
  • 9781118328743 (MobiPocket)
  • 1118328744 (MobiPocket)
  • 9781118328781 ( Adobe PDF)
  • 1118328787 ( Adobe PDF)
  • 9781118328736
  • 1118328736
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Handbook of Middle English studiesDDC classification:
  • 820.9/001 23
LOC classification:
  • PR255
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Selfhood and community -- pt. 2. Constructing texts, constructing textual history -- pt. 3. Politics and places.
Introduction / Marion Turner. -- Part 1: Selfhood and Community. Imagination / Aranye Fradenburg ; Memory / Anke Bernau ; Desire / Elizabeth Scala ; Gender / Nicola McDonald ; Sexuality / Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger ; Public Interiorities / David Lawton ; Race / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ; Animality / Susan Crane. -- Part 2: Constructing Texts, Constructing Textual History. Authorship / Vincent Gillespie ; Audience / Joyce Coleman ; Manuscript / Alexandra Gillespie ; Material Culture / Jessica Brantley ; Genre / Julie Orlemanski ; Aesthetics / Maura Nolan ; Canon Formation / Thomas A. Prendergast ; Periodization / David Matthews. -- Part 3: Politics and Places. Sovereignty / Robert Mills ; Class / Isabel Davis ; Church / Laura Varnam ; City / Jonathan Hsy ; Margins / Corinne Saunders ; Ecology / Carolyn Dinshaw ; Nation / Kathy Lavezzo ; Language / Laura Ashe ; Postcolonialism / John M. Ganim ; A Global Middle Ages / Geraldine Heng.
Summary: "A Handbook to Middle English Studies presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore the relationship between critical theory and late medieval literature. This book: Includes 26 new essays by leading scholars of late medieval literature ; Sets the new standard for an introduction to the study of late medieval literature ; Showcases the most current cutting-edge theoretical research ; Demonstrates a range of approaches to late medieval literature ; Brings together critical theory and medieval literature."--Publisher's website.
List(s) this item appears in: English Literature
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

pt. 1. Selfhood and community -- pt. 2. Constructing texts, constructing textual history -- pt. 3. Politics and places.

Introduction / Marion Turner. -- Part 1: Selfhood and Community. Imagination / Aranye Fradenburg ; Memory / Anke Bernau ; Desire / Elizabeth Scala ; Gender / Nicola McDonald ; Sexuality / Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger ; Public Interiorities / David Lawton ; Race / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ; Animality / Susan Crane. -- Part 2: Constructing Texts, Constructing Textual History. Authorship / Vincent Gillespie ; Audience / Joyce Coleman ; Manuscript / Alexandra Gillespie ; Material Culture / Jessica Brantley ; Genre / Julie Orlemanski ; Aesthetics / Maura Nolan ; Canon Formation / Thomas A. Prendergast ; Periodization / David Matthews. -- Part 3: Politics and Places. Sovereignty / Robert Mills ; Class / Isabel Davis ; Church / Laura Varnam ; City / Jonathan Hsy ; Margins / Corinne Saunders ; Ecology / Carolyn Dinshaw ; Nation / Kathy Lavezzo ; Language / Laura Ashe ; Postcolonialism / John M. Ganim ; A Global Middle Ages / Geraldine Heng.

"A Handbook to Middle English Studies presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore the relationship between critical theory and late medieval literature. This book: Includes 26 new essays by leading scholars of late medieval literature ; Sets the new standard for an introduction to the study of late medieval literature ; Showcases the most current cutting-edge theoretical research ; Demonstrates a range of approaches to late medieval literature ; Brings together critical theory and medieval literature."--Publisher's website.

Global Studies and Governance