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YLS Volume 18 (2004)

YLS Volume 18 (2004)

Table of Contents

(ISBN 1-58044-095-9)


ESSAYS

Jill Mann, “The Nature of Need Revisited”     3

A. V. C. Schmidt,“Ars or Scientia? Reflections on Editing Piers Plowman”     31

George Shuffelton, “Piers Plowman and the Case of the Missing Book”     55

Susan E. Deskis and Thomas D. Hill, “‘The longe man ys seld wys’: Proverbial Characterization and Langland’s Long Will”     73

Frank Grady, “Contextualizing Alexander and Dindimus”     81

Noriko Inoue, “A New Theory of Alliterative A-Verses”     107

Simon Horobin, “The Dialect and Authorship of Richard the Redeless and Mum and the Sothsegger”     133

 

REVIEWS

Helen Barr, Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England. (Ethan Knapp)     153

J. A. Burrow, Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative. (Helen Cooper)     157

Dee Dyas, Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500. (Ad Putter)     161

Elizabeth Fowler, Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing. (Maura Nolan)     165

William Elford Rogers, Interpretation in “Piers Plowman”. (James J. Paxson)     172

James Simpson, Reform and Cultural Revolution. The Oxford English Literary History. Volume 2. 1350-1547. (Larry Scanlon)     176

D. Vance Smith, Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary. (Matthew Goldie)     183

Fiona Somerset, Jill C. Havens, and Derrick G. Pitard, eds., Lollards and their Influence in Late Medieval England. (Katherine C. Little)     189

Emily Steiner, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature. (Chris Baswell)     193

 

Kalpen Trivedi, Annual Bibliography (2004)     201