Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History

Anne Middleton''s essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their ''crux-busting'' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the nature of poetic discourse traced how the generation of Chaucer and Langland devised a category o...