Middle English Literature: A Guide to Criticism

Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.

* A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.

* Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field.

* Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts.

* Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d'Arthur.

* Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form.

* Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week's work in a semester-long course.

* Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.