Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry

About the Author, Back Cover

KATHERINE C. LITTLE is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern “Transforming Work is an exciting, perceptive, and innovative monograph which shows how poetry from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries represented work and labour. In doing so the book poses a serious challenge to prevailing orthodoxies, establishing a courteous dialogue with literary texts and literary critics. Katherine Little shows herself throughout to be an adept and alert reader, committed to revealing what has remained hidden for far too long, our understanding of the relationship between the major literary works of Langland, Googe, Barclay, and Spenser, the literary traditions to which their work belonged, and the reality of work in medieval and early modern England.” —Andrew Hadfield, University of Sussex pastoral tradition in England, and corrects a general tendency to neglect the medieval influences on the development of the tradition. I found the study as a whole immensely stimulating.” —Derek Pearsall, University of York y r a s s e c e n a s r e ff o k o o b n e t t i r w y l d i u fl d n a t n a g e l e s ’ e l t t i L . C e n i r e h t a K “ corrective to a generic narrative that usually occludes the medieval period’s contributions to pastoral. As such, her work is a welcome addition, since it both revises the Renaissance literary map and offers new contexts for reading familiar late medieval texts as part of this larger tradition.” —Kellie Robertson, University of Maryland  .  is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England (University of Notre Dame Press, ). University of Notre Dame Press  ,   .. ...