Description
Book SynopsisA Handbook to Middle English Studies presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore the relationship between critical theory and late medieval literature.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Abbreviations xvii
List of Figures xix
Introduction 1
Marion Turner
Part 1: Selfhood and Community 13
1 Imagination 15
Aranye Fradenburg
2 Memory 33
Anke Bernau
3 Desire 49
Elizabeth Scala
4 Gender 63
Nicola McDonald
5 Sexuality 77
Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger
6 Public Interiorities 93
David Lawton
7 Race 109
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
8 Animality 123
Susan Crane
Part 2: Constructing Texts, Constructing Textual History 135
9 Authorship 137
Vincent Gillespie
10 Audience 155
Joyce Coleman
11 Manuscript 171
Alexandra Gillespie
12 Material Culture 187
Jessica Brantley
13 Genre 207
Julie Orlemanski
14 Aesthetics 223
Maura Nolan
15 Canon Formation 239
Thomas A. Prendergast
16 Periodization 253
David Matthews
Part 3: Politics and Places 267
17 Sovereignty 269
Robert Mills
18 Class 285
Isabel Davis
19 Church 299
Laura Varnam
20 City 315
Jonathan Hsy
21 Margins 331
Corinne Saunders
22 Ecology 347
Carolyn Dinshaw
23 Nation 363
Kathy Lavezzo
24 Language 379
Laura Ashe
25 Postcolonialism 397
John M. Ganim
26 A Global Middle Ages 413
Geraldine Heng
Index 431
