Medieval British Literature Handbook

Daniel T. Kline is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA. He is editor of the Electronic Canterbury Tales.

"This breathtakingly encyclopaedic volume breaks the mould of usual pedagogical approaches to medieval British literature. The emphasis is very much on the recent representation of the field: how it has been refracted and constructed through its influential critics over the past thirty years. Entries on key concepts in twentieth-century critical theory importantly demonstrate that both medievalists and modernists inhabit the same critical continuum of reading and arguing about texts. The unique overlapping structure of the chapters means that the volume's contributing scholars revisit the same territory from different perspectives, ensuring that views on such topics as feminist, postcolonial and psychoanalytic criticism, The Book of Margery Kempe, romance, Lollardy and religious writing are not only multifaceted but also engage student readers in processes of active discrimination." - Professor Ruth Evans, Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, UK.

• General Editors' Introduction; 1. Introduction, Daniel T. Kline (University of Alaska); 2. Middle English Timeline, 1066-1492; 2. Historical Context for Middle English Literature, Brian Gastle (Western Carolina University). 3. Literary and Cultural Contexts: Major Figures, Institutions, Topics, Events, Movements, Julia Bolton Holloway (Florence, Italy); 4. Case Studies in Reading 1: Key Primary Literary Texts, Matthew Boyd Goldie (Rider University); 5. Case Studies in Reading 2: Key Theoretical and Critical Texts, Gail Ashton; 6. Key Critics, Concepts and Topics, Bonnie Millar (Castle College); 7. Changes in Critical Responses and Approaches, John Ganim (University of California Riverside); 8. Changes in the Canon, Nancy Bradley Warren (Florida State University); 9. Issues of Sexuality, Gender and Ethnicity, Diane Cady (Mills College); 10. Mapping the Current Critical Landscape, Sol Neely (Purdue University); Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terminology; Annotated Bibliography; Appendix: Teaching, Medieval British Literature into the Twenty-First Century, Susan Oldrieve (Baldwin-Wallace College) with Joanna Wright Smith; Notes on Contributors; Index.