Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. A. C. Spearing’s Work and Influence xi
6. Bibliography of A. C. Spearing’s Works xxviii
7. I Reading Experience and Experientiality
8. 1 The Wife of Bath’s “Experience”: Some Lexicographical Reflections 3
9. 2 The Proximity of the Virtual: A. C. Spearing’s Experientiality (or, Roaming with Palamon and Arcite) 15
10. 3 Makyng and Middles in Chaucer’s Poetry 31
11. II Revisions and Re-visioning of Alliterative Poetry
12. 4 Fayre Formez: Vernacular Scriptural Paraphrase and Lay Reading in Cleanness 47
13. 5 Langland’s Last Words 65
14. III Subjectivity and the Self
15. 6 Re-reading Troilus in Response to Tony Spearing 85
16. 7 The English Charles: Subjectivity, Texts and Culture 97
17. IV Reading for Form
18. 8 The Inescapability of Form 119
19. 9 Destroyer of Forms: Chaucer’s Philomela 135
20. 10 Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as Dits 157
21. 11 Poems without Form? Maiden in the mor lay Revisited 169
22. 12 “I” and “We” in Chaucer’s Complaint unto Pity 195
23. V Epilogue
24. 13 Two Appreciations of A. C. Spearing 215
25. 14 Announcing a Literary Find Apparently Related to the Gawain-poet 219
26. Works Cited 223
27. Index 241
28. Tabula Gratulatoria 249