Acts of recognition essays on medieval culture - Patterson, Lee.; ebrary, Inc. (Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)
Historical criticism and the development of Chaucer studies -- The disenchanted classroom -- Court poetry and the invention of literature: the example of Sir John Clanvowe -- "What is me?": Hoccleve and the trials of the urban self -- Beinecke MS 493 and the survival of Hoccleve's Series -- Making identities in fifteenth-century England: Henry V and John Lydgate -- The heroic laconic style: reticence and meaning from Beowulf to the Edwardians -- Writing amorous wrongs: Chaucer and the order of complaint -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde -- "Rapt with pleasaunce": the gaze from Virgil to Milton -- Brother Fire and St. Francis's drawers: human nature and the natural world.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500.; Historical criticism (Literature); England -- Civilization -- 1066-1485.; Electronic books