Philip Knox is a University Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of King's College. He is one of the editors of New Medieval Literatures.
The book offers insights on writers such as Jean de Meun, Chaucer,
Gower, Christine de Pizan, and William Langland. Readings of the
text are organized in groupings that demonstrate the ongoing
interrelation of the many interpretations that arose in England in
the 14th century.
*D. Pesta, CHOICE*
The Rose, it is suggested, 'has been so difficult to describe in
modern criticism' because of its 'multiplicity, and the
colliding-together of different reading practices that it
produced'. Knox has coped with that difficulty superbly well,
producing literary criticism of the highest order. Densely written,
intellectually sparkling and always absorbing, this is an
exceptional book which frequently achieves brilliance.
*Alastair Minnis, Review of English Studies*
This book should be an invaluable resource for scholars of both
French and English literature interested in the Rose and its
afterlives.
*Misty Schieberle, French Studies*
Well written, learned, meticulously organized, and characterized by
skilful readings of French and English texts and by a sensitivity
to manuscript contexts, this book should be an invaluable resource
for scholars of both French and English literature interested in
the Rose and its afterlives.
*Misty Schieberle, French Studies*
This is an intellectually serious work of literary history that
sheds light on a mercurial masterpiece.
*Julie Orlemanski, Modern Philology*
Philip Knox's The Romance of the Rose and the Making of
Fourteenth-Century English Literature pairs extensive archival
research with rich literary analysis informed by the lens of
reception history.
*Mimi Ensley, Renaissance Quarterly*
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