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Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture


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The fourteenth-century alliterative poem Piers Plowman was widely popular in its own day. The number of its surviving manuscripts ranks just below that of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Although the poem has been the subject of some interesting recent critical scholarship, it continues to be marginalized by medievalists and non-medievalists alike. According to C. David Benson, this is because the tendency of modern criticism has been to read Piers as an autobiography mired in the singular intellectual obsessions of its author or as a recondite exploration of theological and political issues. In Public Piers Plowman, Benson returns the poem to the center of late medieval English culture by treating it as a public rather than a personal or elite work. In the process, Benson makes this great poem more accessible, exciting, and necessary to modern readers.

Table of Contents:
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Piers Plowman and Modern Scholarship 1. The History of the Langland Myth 2. Beyond the Myth of the Poem: Is There a Text in These Manuscripts? 3. Beyond the Myth of the Poet: Looking for Langland in All the Wrong Places Part II: Piers Plowman and the Public Culture of Late Medieval England 4. Public Writing: Mandeville’s Travels and The Book of Margery Kempe 5. Public Art: Parish Wall Paintings 6. Public Life: London Civic Practices Bibliography Index

About the Author :
C. David Benson is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He has published widely on medieval literature.

Review :
"As valuable in its learned accuracy as it is provocative in its efforts to critique pursuits of the poem as a spiritual or literary autobiography, Benson's study selectively but successfully limns a 'public' culture where the phenomenon of Piers was at home." - Andrew Galloway, Choice; "David Benson tackles the difficult and vital question of Piers Plowman's engagement with its history by getting down to the basics of the text, the circumstances of its production, and the real world from which it emerged. His historical re-envisioning of Piers is exactly what Langland's poem, at this stage in its career, needs. Public Piers Plowman is a major achievement." - Derek Pearsall, Harvard University"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780271024752
  • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0271024755
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 481 gr


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