| Description |
ix, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The context of medieval literature / Elaine Treharne -- Old English religious poetry / Sarah Larratt Keefer -- The Old English elegy / Patrick W. Conner -- 'Tell me what I am' : the Old English riddles / Jonathan Wilcox -- Warring with words : Cynewulf's Juliana / Jill Frederick -- Old English heroic literature / Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr -- Beowulf : monuments, memory, history / Roy M. Liuzza -- History and memory in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Thomas A. Bredehoft -- The persuasive power of Alfredian prose / Nicole Guenther Discenza -- Old English religious prose : rhetorics of salvation and damnation / Thomas N. Hall -- Centralizing feminism in Anglo-Saxon literary studies / Stacy S. Klein -- Wise words : Old English sapiential poetry / Thomas D. Hill -- Middle English didactic literature / James H. Morey -- Middle English writings for women : Ancrene Wisse / Denis Renevey -- The Middle English Brut chronicles / David F. Johnson -- Earlier verse romance / Peter J. Lucas -- Middle English debate literature / Alan J. Fletcher -- Religious writing by women / Mary Swan -- The Gawain-poet / Michael W. Twomey -- Middle English prologues / Andrew Galloway -- The Middle English lyrics / Anne Marie D'Arcy -- Medieval dream visions : Chaucer's Book of the Duchess / William A. Quinn -- Late romance : Malory and the Tale of Balin / Ad Putter -- Scottish literature / Nicola Royan -- Medieval drama : the Corpus Christi in York and Croxton / Greg Walker. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, David F. (David Frame), 1956-
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Treharne, Elaine.
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| ISBN |
0199261636 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780199261635 paperback alkaline paper |
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