Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader

350 Pages·1999·15.08 MB·English

by  Derek Pearsall

Chaucer to Spenser:
A Critical Reader
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Edited by Derek Pearsall
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Chaucer to Spenser
A Critical Reader
Edited by
Derek Pearsall
Copyright © Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1999
Editorial introduction, selection, and apparatus copyright © Derek Pearsall 1999
First published 1999
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Chaucer to Spenser—a critical reader/edited by Derek Pearsall,
p. cm.—(Blackwell critical readers in literature)
Companion vol. to: Chaucer to Spenser—an anthology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-631-19936-5 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-631-19937-3 (alk. paper)
1. English literature—Middle English, 1100-1500—History and criticism. 2. English
literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism.
I. Pearsall, Derek Albert. II. Series.
PR260.C47 1999 820.9—dc21 99-28389 CIP
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Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Preface x
Acknowledgments xvii
1 The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval
Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in
Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman 1
David Aers
2 The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions 42
Mary Carruthers
3 Eunuch Hermeneutics 65
Carolyn Dinshaw
4 Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and
Chaucer 107
Elizabeth Fowler
5 At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-Fashioning and
Self-Cancellation 133
Stephen Greenblvtt
6 The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings 162
Roland Greene
vi Contents
7 Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 187
Jill Mann
8 William Langland’s “Kynde Name”: Authorial Signature and
Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England 206
Anne Middleton
9 Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism 246
Lee Patterson
10 “Abject odious”: Feminine and Masculine in Henryson’s
Testament of Cresseid 280
Felicity Riddy
11 Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the
English Poems of Charles d’Orléans 297
A. C. Spearing
12 False Fables and Historical Truth 312
Paul Strohm
Index 319