| The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature Contributor(s): Wallace, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521444209 ISBN-13: 9780521444200 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $216.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: This is the first full-scale history of medieval English literature in nearly a century. Thirty-three contributors provide information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception. The volume also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers the most extensive account available of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | Reference - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.900 |
| LCCN: 97042232 |
| Series: New Cambridge History of English Literature |
| Physical Information: 2.27" H x 6.39" W x 9.31" (3.32 lbs) 1066 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wallace, David: - David Wallace is the Judith Rodin Professor of English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy (1997); Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron (1991); Chaucer and the early writings of Boccaccio (1985); Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England (ed. with Barbara A Hanawalt). |