A Companion to British Literature, Set

Volume I: Medieval Literature 700 - 1450
 
Full Table of Contents ix
 

Editors xix
 
Notes on Contributors to Volume I xx
 
General Introduction xxiv
Robert DeMaria, Jr.
 
Introduction to Medieval Literature xxxi
Samantha Zacher
 
Chronology 43 - 1476 xlvii
 
1 The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 1
Karl Reichl
 
2 Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 16
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
 
3 Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 30
Emily V. Thornbury
 
4 Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 48
Paul E. Szarmach
 
5 The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints' Legends in John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium 65
Virginia Blanton
 
6 Racial Imagination and the Theater of War: Captivity and Execution in Richard, Coer de Lion 81
Suzanne M. Yeager
 
7 The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After 1066 97
Neil Cartlidge
 
8 Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul 114
Liz Herbert McAvoy
 
9 Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation: The Narrative Pragmatics of an Ideal 130
Christine Chism
 
10 Writing Revolution 146
Marion Turner
 
11 The Romance Genre 161
Corinne Saunders
 
12 Interior Visions: Piers Plowman and the Dream Vision Genre 180
Michael Calabrese
 
13 British Chaucer 202
John M. Ganim
 
14 Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England 215
Andrew Galloway
 
15 Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture 232
Denise L. Despres
 
16 Sources, Analogues, Creativity 243
Tim William Machan
 
17 Performing Communities: The Variety of Dramatic Practices in Medieval England 256
Christina M. Fitzgerald
 
18 Old English and Anglo-Latin: The Odd Couple 273
Andy Orchard
 
19 Before the Makars: Older Scots Literature Under the Early

Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College. He is the General Editor of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, the editor of the Johnsonian News Letter, and the author of Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning (1986), The Life of Samuel Johnson (Blackwell, 1993), and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997). He is also the editor of Classical Literature and its Reception (with Robert Brown, Blackwell, 2007) and British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1996; 3d ed., 2008).

Heesok Chang is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell title Handbook to British Modernism, and is currently working on a book on literary modernism and media technologies. In addition, he is the author of articles on critical theory and literary modernism.

Samantha Zacher is an Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Cornell University, where she teaches Old and Middle English Literature. She is the author of Preaching the Converted: the Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies (University of Toronto Press, 2009) and co-editor, with Andy Orchard, of New Readings in the Vercelli Book (University of Toronto Press, 2009). Her new monograph, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Press (October 2013). She is also editing a new collection of essays entitled Imagining the Jew: Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press, 2013).