Elizabeth AllenAssociate Professor, English |
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Research Interests |
Late medieval literature. Chaucer, Gower, fifteenth-century poetry; exemplary literature, romance, chronicle; cultural history, history of religious practice, historicism. | |
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Research Abstract |
Elizabeth Allen works on later Middle English literature. Her book, False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature, came out from Palgrave in 2005. Her current project (tentatively titled Crime, Respite, and the Politics of Sanctuary) explores the late-medieval legal, political, and religious ramifications of seeking sanctuary in holy places. | |
| Publications | Books | |
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False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature, Palgrave, 2005 Crime, Respite, and the Politics of Sanctuary, book in progress |
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| Selected Articles | ||
| "'As mote in at a munster dor': Rioters, Rebels, and Jonah in the Whale," Philological Quarterly 87 (2008). | ||
| "The Episodic," Twenty-first Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English, ed. Paul Strohm (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 191-206. | ||
| "Newfangled Readers in Gower's Apollonius of Tyre," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007), 419-64. | ||
| "Chaucer Answers Gower: Constance and the Trouble With Reading," English Literary History 63 (1997). | ||
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Professional Societies |
John Gower Society Medieval Academy of America Modern Language Association New Chaucer Society |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4540 | |
| Last updated | 08/09/2009 | |