Saturday, November 6, 2010

Lost History of Piers Plowman


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Penn Press

New in Literature
The Lost History of The Lost History of "Piers Plowman": The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work
Lawrence Warner
144 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus.
Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4275-1 | $49.95 | £32.50
A volume in the Middle Ages Series

This groundbreaking work challenges the received history of William Langland's Piers Plowman. Through close textual analysis, Lawrence Warner brings about a fundamental shift in our understanding of the production and transmission of the poem's three versions, establishing an entirely new paradigm for the study of Middle English literature. Read more . . .

Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact Ellen Trachtenberg at ellenpt@upenn.edu.
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