Description: One-stop resource for courses in medieval literature, providing students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research.
Brief description: Daniel T. Kline is Professor of English and Director of the Department of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA. He edited Medieval Children's Literature (Routledge, 2003), The Continuum Handbook of Medieval British Literature (Continuum, 2009), and Digital Gaming Re-Imagines the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2014), and co-edited, with Gail Ashton, Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (Palgrave, 2012).
Review Quotes: "Rivalling a medieval summa in its encyclopaedic scope and glittering specificity, The Medieval British Literature Handbook presents Middle English literature in all of its variegated, hybrid, and genre-bending allure. Just as valuably, from its case studies in criticism to its suggested "Web Quests" for students, the Handbook documents the imaginative and highly interdisciplinary scholarship that Middle English literature has inspired and continues to generate, even as it situates the excitement of medieval studies today along a shifting and permeable boundary between the global cultures of the Middle Ages and the twenty-first century. With The Medieval British Literature Handbook, the "New Middle Ages" has truly arrived!" - Professor Martha Rust, Department of English, New York University, USA.