Awards

• Winner of Winner of the Beatrice White Prize from the English Association and the Year's Work in English Studies 2021
• Winner of Winner of the Beatrice White Prize from the English Association and the Year's Work in English Studies.

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Author:   Kellie Robertson ,  Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9780812248654

ISBN 10:   0812248651
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   09 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"A Note on Citations and Abbreviations Introduction: Medieval Poetry and Natural Philosophy PART I. FRAMING MEDIEVAL NATURE Chapter 1. Figuring Physis Chapter 2. Aristotle's Nature and Its Discontents PART II. ALLEGORIZING NATURE IN THE VERNACULAR Chapter 3. Jean de Meun and the Rule of Necessity Chapter 4. Allegory Without Nature: Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de vie humaine PART III. LOVE AND TH ELIMITS OF NATURAL REASON Chapter 5. Chaucer's Natures Chapter 6. ""Kyndely Reson"" on Trial: Translating Nature After Chaucer Epilogue: Nature's Silence: Humanism, Posthumanism, and the Legacy of Medieval Nature Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments"

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Kellie Robertson's book is an indispensable study of the idea of nature in the writings of Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Lydgate. Revising the foundational work on nature and Platonism undertaken several generations ago, it offers an entirely new way of understanding the significance of nature in vernacular writing. -D. Vance Smith, Princeton University

Kellie Robertson's book is an indispensable study of the idea of nature in the writings of Jean de Meun, Guillaume de Deguileville, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Lydgate. Revising the foundational work on nature and Platonism undertaken several generations ago, it offers an entirely new way of understanding the significance of nature in vernacular writing. -D. Vance Smith, Princeton University Nature Speaks is inspirational, since it offers new insights for the field of medieval literature, and the ambition and scope of the work are to be applauded. -Isis

Author Information

Kellie Robertson is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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