Author: Astell, Ann W.
Title: Political Allegory in Late Medieval England
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1999). orig.boards. 24x15cm, xii,218 pp. Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bumps. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Materia of Allegorical Invention; "Full of Enigmas": John Ball's Letters & Piers Plowman; Gower's Arion & "Cithero"; Chaucer's Ricardian Allegories; Penitential Politics in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight': Richard II, Richard of Arundel & Robert de Vere; Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou and Malory's Guenevere at the Stake; Conclusion.

Keywords: Medieval Literature, English England, Government, Political Allegory, Allegories, Allegorical, Literary History, Criticism, Rhetoric