{"product_id":"public-piers-plowman-c-david-benson-9780271023151","title":"Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourteenth-century alliterative poem \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman \u003c\/i\u003ewas widely popular in its own day. The number of its surviving manuscripts ranks just below that of Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e. Although the poem has been the subject of some interesting recent critical scholarship, it continues to be marginalized by medievalists and non-medievalists alike. According to C. David Benson, this is because the tendency of modern criticism has been to read \u003ci\u003ePiers\u003c\/i\u003e as an autobiography mired in the singular intellectual obsessions of its author or as a recondite exploration of theological and political issues. In \u003ci\u003ePublic Piers Plowman\u003c\/i\u003e, Benson returns the poem to the center of late medieval English culture by treating it as a public rather than a personal or elite work. In the process, Benson makes this great poem more accessible, exciting, and necessary to modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. David Benson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271023155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271023151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.22w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2004 pg. 2042","brand":"C. David Benson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064808157439,"sku":"9780271023151","price":72.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b319e8e-9d2d-4d0e-ad33-ff4faca68216.jpg?v=1768671164","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/public-piers-plowman-c-david-benson-9780271023151","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}