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Middle English

Literature

A Guide to Criticism

Edited by Roger Dalrymple

Middle English Literature

Blackwell Guides to Criticism

Editor Michael O’Neill

The aim of this new series is to provide undergraduates pursuing literary

studies with collections of key critical work from an historical perspective. At

the same time emphasis is placed upon recent and current work. In general,

historic responses of importance are described, and represented by short

excerpts, in an introductory narrative chapter. Thereafter landmark pieces and

cutting edge contemporary work are extracted or provided in their entirety

according to their potential value to the student. Each volume seeks to enhance

enjoyment of literature and to widen the individual student’s critical reper-

toire. Critical approaches are treated as ‘tools’, and not articles of faith, to

enhance the pursuit of reading and study. At a time when critical bibliogra-

phies seem to swell by the hour and library holdings to wither year by year,

the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series offers students privileged access to and

careful guidance through those writings that have most conditioned the

historic current of discussion and debate as it now informs contemporary

scholarship.

Published volumes

Corinne Saunders Chaucer

Francis O’Gorman The Victorian Novel

Emma Smith

Shakespeare’s Comedies

Emma Smith

Shakespeare’s Histories

Emma Smith

Shakespeare’s Tragedies

Roger Dalrymple

Middle English Literature