Table of Contents

A. C. Spearing's Work and Influence - Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith
Bibliography of A. C. Spearing's Work - Peter S. Baker
The Wife of Bath's "Experience": Some Lexicographical Reflections - Derek Pearsall
The Proximity of the Virtual: A. C. Spearing's Experientiality [or, Roaming with Palamon and Arcite] - Elizabeth Fowler
Makyng and Middles in Chaucer's Poetry - Claire M. Waters
Fayre Formez: Vernacular Scriptural Paraphrase and Lay Reading in Cleanness - Kevin Gustafson
Langland's Last Words - Michael A Calabrese
Re-reading Troilus in Response to Tony Spearing - David Aers
The English Charles: Subjectivity, Texts and Culture - Nicolette Zeeman
The Inescapability of Form - Jill Mann
Destroyer of Forms: Chaucer's Philomela - D. Vance Smith
Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as Dits - John A. Burrow
Poems without Form? Maiden in the mor lay Revisited - Ardis Butterfield
"I" and "We" in Chaucer's Complaint Unto Pity - Cristina Maria Cervone
Two Appreciations of A. C. Spearing - Peter S. Baker and Elizabeth Fowler
Announcing a Literary Find Apparently Related to the Gawain-poet - Cristina Maria Cervone
Works Cited

About the Author

The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.

Reviews

The analyses included in this volume are likely to generate new knowledge and understanding into the future.
*PARERGON*

[Offers] fascinating insights not just into how we read in late medieval English liter-ary studies but also into how we learn to read in this field.
*JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY*