Medieval English Poetry

The essays in this volume consider a range of poetic texts written in England between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, with the exception of works by Chaucer, and represent some of the exciting recent developments in medieval studies. The collection explores and interrogates the established canon of Middle English poetry and includes studies of two major poems, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Piers Plowman, and essays on some less well-known works, including Havelok the Dane, The Owl and the Nightingale and The Flower and the Leaf. In a field that has been dominated by historical scholarship and conservative new criticism, Medieval English Poetry brings together some of the most controversial recent work that has been carried out in Medieval Studies; this collection reveals the strength and depth of this research in feminist, Marxist, historicist, reader-response and deconstructionist methods.Trigg, Stephanie is the author of 'Medieval English Poetry' with ISBN 9780582082618 and ISBN 0582082617.