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Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader Blackwell Critical Readers in Literature Chaucer to Spenser: A Critical Reader Edited by Derek Pearsall British Literature 1640-1789: A Critical Reader Edited by Robert DeMaria, Jr. Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Reader Edited by Karen L. Kilcup Romanticism: A Critical Reader Edited by Duncan Wu Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader Edited by Angela Leighton Chaucer to Spenser A Critical Reader Edited by Derek Pearsall Copyright © Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1999 Editorial introduction, selection, and apparatus copyright © Derek Pearsall 1999 First published 1999 2468 10 97531 Blackwell Publishers Inc. 350 Main Street Malden, Massachusetts 02148 USA Blackwell Publishers Ltd 108 Cowley Road Oxford 0X4 1JF UK All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chaucer to Spenser—a critical reader/edited by Derek Pearsall, p. cm.—(Blackwell critical readers in literature) Companion vol. to: Chaucer to Spenser—an anthology. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-631-19936-5 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-631-19937-3 (alk. paper) 1. English literature—Middle English, 1100-1500—History and criticism. 2. English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism. I. Pearsall, Derek Albert. II. Series. PR260.C47 1999 820.9—dc21 99-28389 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Libran-. Typeset in 10.5 on 12pt Monotype Garamond by Kolam Information Services Pvt. Ltd, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain by T. J. International, Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper Contents Notes on Contributors vii Preface x Acknowledgments xvii 1 The Humanity of Christ: Reflections on Orthodox Late Medieval Representations and The Humanity of Christ: Representations in Wycliffite Texts and Piers Plowman 1 David Aers 2 The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions 42 Mary Carruthers 3 Eunuch Hermeneutics 65 Carolyn Dinshaw 4 Misogyny and Economic Person in Skelton, Langland, and Chaucer 107 Elizabeth Fowler 5 At the Table of the Great: More’s Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation 133 Stephen Greenblvtt 6 The Colonial Wyatt: Contexts and Openings 162 Roland Greene vi Contents 7 Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 187 Jill Mann 8 William Langland’s “Kynde Name”: Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England 206 Anne Middleton 9 Historical Criticism and the Claims of Humanism 246 Lee Patterson 10 “Abject odious”: Feminine and Masculine in Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid 280 Felicity Riddy 11 Prison, Writing, Absence: Representing the Subject in the English Poems of Charles d’Orléans 297 A. C. Spearing 12 False Fables and Historical Truth 312 Paul Strohm Index 319
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