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Derek Pearsall, ed.
Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader.
Published Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Series: Blackwell Critical Readers in Literature.
ISBN 0631199373;
ISBN-13: 9780631199373.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Size: 151x228x25mm.
Page count: xviii,327pp inc. 1 monochrome illustration.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the usual shop wear, not too severe.

This item £14.00
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[Publisher’s price £23.99/$54.95]
Weight without packaging: 521g.

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Presents a collection of significant essays and extracts, mostly recent. Contents:
Aers, The humanity of Christ — reflections on orthodox late medieval representations; and, Representations in Wycliffite texts & Piers Plowman;
Carruthers, The Wife of bath & the painting of lions;
Dinshaw, Eunuch hermeneutics;
Fowler, Misogyny & economic person in Skelton, Langland & Chaucer;
Greenblatt, More’s self-fashioning & self-cancellation;
Greene, The colonial Wyatt — contexts & openings;
Mann, Price & value in Sir Gawain & the Green Knight;
Middleton, Langland’s "kynde name" — authorial signature & social identity in late 14th‑c. England;
Patterson, Feminine & masculine in Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid;
Spearing, Representing the subject in the English poems of Charles d’Orléans;
Strohm, False fables & historical truth.

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