<p><b><i>Middle English</i> is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.</b></p> <ul> <li>A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.</li> <li>Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field.</li> <li>Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts.</li> <li>Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including <i>The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales</i> and <i>Morte d'Arthur.</i></li> <li>Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form.</li> <li>Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week's work in a semester-long course.</li> <li>Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.</li> </ul>