Laura Howes is an American scholar of Middle English literature. She is the author of Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention (1998) and the editor, with Marie Borroff, of the Norton Critical Edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2010). Howes received her B.A. from Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University, and is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee.[1]

Publications edit

  • Howes, Laura L. (1997). Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention. Gainesville: UP of Florida. ISBN 9780813015064.[2][3][4][5]
  • Howes, Laura L. (2002). "'The Slow Curve of the Footwalker': Narrative Time and Literary Landscapes in Middle English Poetry". In John Howe (ed.). Inventing Medieval Landscapes: Senses of Place in Western Europe. Michael Wolfe. Gainesville: UP of Florida. pp. 192–207. ISBN 9780813024790.[6]
  • Howes, Laura L.; Borroff, Marie (2010). Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Norton Critical Editions. New York: Norton. ISBN 9780393930252.[7]

References edit

  1. ^ "Department of English - Faculty & Staff: Laura L. Howes". University of Tennessee. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  2. ^ Bleeth, Kenneth (1999). "Rev. of Howes, Chaucer's Garden and the Language of Convention". Speculum. 74 (2): 434–36. doi:10.2307/2887088. JSTOR 2887088.
  3. ^ Heffernan, Carol N. (1999). "Rev. of Howes, Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention". Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 98 (4): 555–56. JSTOR 27711875.
  4. ^ Cain, Jeffrey (1998). "Rev. of Howes, Chaucer's Garden and the Language of Convention". Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 52 (2): 84–86. doi:10.2307/1348189. JSTOR 1348189.
  5. ^ Ashley, Kathleen (1999). "Forward into the past with Chaucer and His Critics". College English. 62 (1): 112–18. doi:10.2307/378902. JSTOR 378902.
  6. ^ Jordan, William Chester (2004). "Rev. of Howe, Wolfe, Inventing Medieval Landscapes". Speculum. 79 (1): 211–12. doi:10.1017/s0038713400095221. JSTOR 20462843.
  7. ^ Baragona, Alan (2012). "Rev. of Howes, Borroff, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 111 (4): 535–38. doi:10.5406/jenglgermphil.111.4.0535.