These original essays mean to provoke rather than reassure, to
challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing
knowledge after the fashion of the now-ubiquitous literary
'companions, ' these essays aim at opening fresh discussion;
instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers
to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate. Although 'major
authors' such as Chaucer and Langland are richly represented, many
little-known and neglected texts are considered as well. Analysis
is devoted not only to self-sufficient works, but to the general
conditions of textual production and reception. Contributors to
this collection include some recognized and admired names, but also
a good many newer faces: younger scholars whose groundbreaking
research is just coming into full view, and whose perspectives will
influence the terms of literary discussion in the decades to come.
Encouraged to speculate, they have addressed topics that unsettle
previous categories of investigation. Each is oriented toward the
emergent, the unfinalized, the yet-to-be-done. Each essay stirs new
questions and concludes with suggestions for further reading and
investigation that will allow readers to extend their own research
into the questions it has raised.
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