Nature and Medieval Literature / Stephen Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Stephen, author.

Series:

New century Chaucer.

New Century Chaucer

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

French literature--History and criticism.

French literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book describes how medieval authors represent the natural world - both seeing it in terms of natural and animal forces and meanings, but also as a different domain that can cast a revealing and critical light on the human and urban world.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Nature and medieval Welsh literature

2. Nature in mainstream romances : Perceval, Predur and Sir Perceval of Galles

3. Chaucer's use of nature in representation narrative and analysis

4. Nature in the Scottish Chaucerians

5. Nature in medieval English romances

6. Nature and the Robin Hood myth

7. Nature in medieval English lyrics.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781837721047

1837721041

OCLC:

1422279112