RESERVE  READINGS       ENGLISH 4270                     FALL 2006

 

 

Mandeville’s Travels

 

Bennett, Josephine Waters  The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville (1954) [complete study of text and author]

 

Grady, Frank  Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England (2005) [chapter on Mandeville—most of which you’ve already heard…]

 

Greenblatt, Stephen  Marvelous Possessions : The Wonder of the New World  (1991) [chapter on Mandeville]

 

Howard, Donald  Writers and Pilgrims : medieval pilgrimage narratives and their posterity (1980)  [chapter on Mandeville]

 

Mandeville, Sir John.  The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, with three narratives in illustration of it(1964/1900)  [includes Odoric and other travel accounts]

 

Mary B. Campbell, Mary B.  The Witness and the Other World : exotic European travel writing, 400-1600 (1988) [chapter on Mandeville]

 

Zacher, Christian K. Curiosity and Pilgrimage : the literature of discovery in fourteenth-century England (1976) [chapter on Mandeville]

 

 

Malory

            Benson, Larry D. Malory's Morte Darthur  (1976)

 

            Cannon, Christopher  Malory’s Crime” (2000)

 

Sir Gawain

 

Denton Fox, ed.  Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

John Burrow, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

Ross Arthur, Medieval sign Theory and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

Larry D. Benson, Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

Donald Howard and Christian Zacher, Critical Studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight