Langland's Early Modern Identities

This book uses the methodologies of cultural studies and the history of the book to show how editors and readers of the Sixteenth through the early Nineteenth century successively remade Piers Plowman and its author according to their own ideologies of the Middle Ages.

Autorentext
Sarah A. Kelen is Associate Professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction: Langland as an Early Modern Author Chapter 1: The Birth of Langland Chapter 2: A Proliferation of Plowmen Chapter 3: Langland Anthologized Chapter 4: Langland Recontextualized Chapter 5: Fictions of Authorship, Fictions of English Literature