Piers Plowman by William Langland: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text by Pearsall, Derek
Piers Plowman by William Langland: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text by Pearsall, Derek

Piers Plowman by William Langland: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text

William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious...
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Author: Derek Pearsall
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Piers Plowman by William Langland: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text by Pearsall, Derek

Piers Plowman by William Langland: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text

BD$65.42
Piers Plowman by William Langland: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text by Pearsall, Derek

Piers Plowman by William Langland: A New Annotated Edition of the C-Text

BD$65.42
Author: Derek Pearsall
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
William Langland's poem stands at the centre of the study of ideological conflict, social change and religious ideas in the later fourteenth century. It is a poem that vividly encapsulates the great issues and debates of the day and acts as a commentary on cataclysmic events such as the Peasants' Revolt (1381), the condemnation of Wyclif's ideas (1382) and the rise of Lollardy. It is also one of the greatest poems of the English Middle Ages, worth reading beside Dante and Chaucer.The poem has provoked a sophisticated and wide-ranging critical literature. It needs to be read in an edition by an expert conceived with the student-reader in mind. Of the A, B and C versions of the text of Piers Plowman, only a student-geared edition of the B-text exists and that edition is now becoming dated. The C-text, which supersedes B in terms of Langland's poetic career, is also a more complete and carefully structured poem. It needs to be available in an equally readerly edition; this is such an edition. For his new edition of the C-text of Piers Plowman, Derek Pearsall has completely revised the text, added side glosses for the benefit of student readers of the poem (though without sacrificing the glossary), and revised and updated the explanatory notes. The Introduction has also been expanded, revised and reshaped to take account of this. Since the new edition involves a significant reworking of the previous edition and justifies library copy replacement, a hardback library edition will be available for a limited period.

Author: Derek Pearsall, William Langland
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 07/11/2008
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780859897846


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2009

About the Author

Derek Pearsall is Professor Emeritus of Harvard University and a pre-eminent scholar of Langland and Chaucer; he has published widely on both authors.



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