An Introduction to Medieval English Literature: 1300-1485

ISBN-13: 9780230250376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 296 str.

Anna Baldwin

Opis

This book provides an informative, critical and concise introduction to the literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, contextualising the literature and introducing the pre-eminent authors of the period.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The Poor Commons: literature and social change 2. The Poor Commons: education and dissent 3. The Urban Middle Class: Satire, Debate and Political Advice 4. The Urban Middle Class: Tales of Women and Marriage 5. The community of the Church: religious lyrics and the English mystics 6. Religious and Moral Stories 7. Aristocratic Love 8. Chivalric Romances Further Reading.

O autorze

Anna Baldwin lectured in English Literature at the University of York, UK, where she specialised in Middle English. She has also worked as a tutor for Cambridge University and taught at Hills Road Sixth Form College.