Medieval writers and their work
Subtitle: Middle English literature 1100-1500
By: J.A. Burrow.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780199532049
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Description: "In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J.A. Burrow takes account of scholarly developments in the field. Full of information and stimulating ideas, and a pleasure to read, Burrow's book deals with circumstances of composition and reception, the main genres, 'modes of meaning' (allegory etc.), and medieval literature's afterlife in modern times. It shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context--the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance--Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: First published 1982.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-151) and index.