William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction
Piers Plowman in Context:
	Making History Legal: Piers Plowman and the Rebels of Fourteenth-Century England
	The Luxury of Gender: Piers Plowman B.9 and The Merchant\'s Tale
	Langland\'s Romances
	The Langland Myth
The Poetry of Piers Plowman:
	Langland\'s Mighty Line
	Chaucer and Langland as Religious Writers
Through the Lens of Theory:
	The Power of Impropriety: Authorial Naming in Piers Plowman
	Measurement and the \"Feminine\" in Piers Plowman: A Response to Recent Studies of Langland and Gender
Allegory Reconsidered:
	Inventing the Subject and the Personification of Will in Piers Plowman: Rhetorical, Erotic, and Ideological Origins and Limits in Langland\'s Allegorical Poetics
	\"Nede ne hath no lawe\": Poverty and the De-stabilization of Allegory in the Final Visions of Piers Plowman
Notes on Contributors
Index