Description: Examines the impact of the Hundred Years' War on French and English literature of the period, revealing the ways in which history influences literature and literature intervenes in history.
Brief description: Denise N. Baker is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the author of Julian of Norwich's Showings: From Vision to Book.
Review Quotes:
"An excellent example of New Historicism or 'critical historicism.' Many of the essays speak to one another and pick up issues only touched upon in earlier essays, or provide a complementary reading of the same works or an author's corpus. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the entire collection." - Deborah McGrady, Tulane University
"This book deals with important texts and issues that will engage a variety of scholars and fill in the particulars of a confusing period of English and French history." - Lynn Staley, Colgate University