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ISBN 10: 0191527033 
ISBN 13: 9780191527036  
Author: Daniel Wakelin
 

Humanism is usually thought to come to England in the early sixteenth century. In this book, however, Daniel Wakelin uncovers the almost unknown influences of humanism on English literature in the preceding hundred years. He considers the humanist influences on the reception of some of Chaucer’s work and on the work of important authors such as Lydgate, Bokenham, Caxton, and Medwall, and in many anonymous or forgotten translations, political treatises, and documents from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. At the heart of his study is a consideration of William Worcester, the fifteenth-century scholar. Wakelin can trace the influence of humanism much earlier than was thought, because he examines evidence in manuscripts and early printed books of the English study and imitation of antiquity, in polemical marginalia on classical works, and in the ways in which people copied and shared classical works and translations. He also examines how various English works were shaped by such reading habits and, in turn, how those English works reshaped the reading habits of the wider community. Humanism thus, contrary to recent strictures against it, appears not as ‘top-down’ dissemination, but as a practical process of give-and-take between writers and readers. Humanism thus also prompts writers to imagine their potential readerships in ways which challenge them to re-imagine the political community and the intellectual freedom of the reader. Our views both of the fifteenth century and of humanist literature in English are transformed.
 

Humanism Reading and English Literature 1430 1530 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Introduction: humanism as reading

Humanism in English literature during the fifteenth century

Other humanisms

Chaucer and Walton from medieval to Renaissance

The freedom of Chaucer’s readers

2. Duke Humfrey and other imaginary readers

Imagining Duke Humfrey

The princely reader in The Fall of Princes

The real reading of The Fall of Princes

Writing for the humanist in On Husbondrie

Imagining Duke Humfrey in On Husbondrie

The rewriting of Duke Humfrey’s books

3. Allusion, translation, and mistranslation

The muses of Osbern Bokenham

An exemplum for the Duke of York

Alluding to Stilicho

The translation of power in Knyghthode and Bataile

Polemical and civil translation in Knyghthode and Bataile

4. William Worcester and the commonweal of readers

A community of readers

Political reading: Cicero, John of Wales, and Chartier

The limits of exemplary reading

Sources of the commonweal in The Boke of Noblesse

The commonweal of readers and common knowledge

5. Print and the reproduction of humanist readers

Reproducing humanism in print

Reproducible English in Anwykyll’s Vulgaria

Cicero between grammar and philosophy

Reproducing the commonweal of readers in Caxton’s prologues

Caxton’s Cicero and its misreaders

6. Eloquence, reason, and debate

Eloquent debate in the fifteenth century

Debating Buonaccorso’s Declamatio

Reasons for rhetoric in Medwall’s Fulgens and Lucres

The idea of reason in Medwall’s Nature

The received ideas in Morton’s household

7. Some Tudor readers and their freedom

Prescribing humanism in the 1510s

Lupset and Elyot on reading and judgement

Elyot’s unpredictable readers

Works Cited

Index

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