{"product_id":"chaucer-langland-and-fourteenth-century-literary-history-9781409444923","title":"Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Anne Middleton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Middleton's essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their 'crux-busting' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the nature of poetic discourse traced how the generation of Chaucer and Langland devised a category of the literary that could embody a ethos of engaged, worldly consensus and make that consensus available to imaginative and rational consideration. And their reflections on the enterprise of literary study found a rational way, free of cant, to understand the work of the literary scholar. This volume reprints eight essays: 'The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II, ' 'Chaucer's 'New Men' and the Good of Literature in the Canterbury Tales, ' 'The Physician's Tale and Love's Martyrs: 'Ensamples Mo than Ten' as a Method in the Canterbury Tales, ' 'The Clerk and His Tale: Some Literary Contexts, ' 'Narration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in Piers Plowman, ' 'Making a Good End: John But as a Reader of Piers Plowman, ' 'William Langland's 'Kynde Name': Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England, ' 'Life in the Margins, or, What's an Annotator to Do?' It includes one essay previously unpublished, 'Playing the Plowman: Legends of Fourteenth-Century Authorship.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45236225278103,"sku":"9781409444923","price":13281.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781409444923.webp?v=1769212321","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/chaucer-langland-and-fourteenth-century-literary-history-9781409444923","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}