 | Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing Subjects: English literature -- Middle English 1100–1500 -- History and criticism; Characters and characteristics in literature; English literature -- Early modern 1500—1700 -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century; S; Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales . Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words... Elizabeth Fowler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is coeditor of The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World , and is a general editor of the forthcoming Works of Edmund Spenser . |
