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Boris Ford, ed.
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: 1. Medieval Literature: Part One, Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition.
Publisher Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2nd impression (previously issued 1991 with revised bibliographies; earlier edn. was 1984).
Series: Penguin Literary Criticism.
ISBN 0140138064;
ISBN-13: 9780140138061.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays Ltd., St. Ives plc.
Size: 128x197x27mm.
Page count: 651pp.
Main language: English; quotations and texts are given with lightly modernised orthography and difficult words glossed at the foot of the page; for the text of Pearl each stanza is provided with a prose paraphrase.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some scuffs and creases on the covers and spine, some wear at the edges and corners; pages yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 398g.

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Contents: Essays:
Brewer, Social context of medieval English literature;
Speirs, Survey of medieval verse & drama;
Pearsall, Postscript [to Speirs] — changing perspectives;
Dolan & Scattergood, Middle English prose;
Brewer, Language of English medieval literature;
Mann, Chaucerian themes & style in the Franklin’s Tale;
Speirs, Pardoner’s Prologue & Tale;
Holbrook, Nun’s Priest’s Tale;
Bishop, Troilus & Criseyde and the Knight’s Tale;
Traversi, Langland’s Piers Plowman;
Burrow, Sir Gawain & the Green Knight;
Robinson, Pearl — poetry & suffering;
Spearing, Dream-poems;
Stevens, Medieval lyrics & music;
Axton, Miracle plays of Noah;
Pearsall, Visual world of the Middle Ages;
Cruttwell, Dunbar & Henryson;
Mann, Malory — knightly combat in Le Morte D’Arthur;
Axton, The morality tradition;
Harding, Poetry of Wyatt;
Baker-Smith, Thomas More & the court of Henry VIII;
Anthology:
3 Harley lyrics;
Winner & Waster;
The Lord of Love;
Langland, Harrowing of Hell (from Piers Plowman);
Chestre, Sir Launfal;
Pearl;
Gower, Tereus & Procne (from Confessio Amantis);
The Blacksmiths;
Hoccleve, 3 roundels;
Towneley 2nd Shepherds’ Play;
York Crucifixion Play;
9 Sloane lyrics;
Henryson, Lion & the Mouse (from Moral Fables)

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Illustrations: 9, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 32pp
Index: yes

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