Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 Scanlon Larry Rutgers University New JerseyPaperback
Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 Scanlon Larry Rutgers University New JerseyPaperback The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over…
Specifikacia Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 Scanlon Larry Rutgers University New JerseyPaperback
Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500 Scanlon Larry Rutgers University New JerseyPaperback
The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation's leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. Exploring the period's key authors - Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-Poet, Margery Kempe, among many - and genres - plays, romances, poems and epics - the book offers an overview of the riches of medieval writing. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history of literature in English.
Designed to be accessible to students, the book also features a chronology and guide to further The essays map out the flourishing field of medieval literary studies and point towards new directions and approaches.