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ISBN 10: 1139797786
ISBN 13: 9781139797788
Author: Larry Scanlon
The medieval period was one of extraordinary literary achievement sustained over centuries of great change, anchored by the Norman invasion and its aftermath, the re-emergence of English as the nation’s leading literary language in the fourteenth century and the advent of print in the fifteenth. This Companion spans four full centuries to survey this most formative and turbulent era in the history of literature in English. Exploring the period’s key authors – Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-Poet, Margery Kempe, among many – and genres – plays, romances, poems and epics – the book offers an overview of the riches of medieval writing. The essays map out the flourishing field of medieval literary studies and point towards new directions and approaches. Designed to be accessible to students, the book also features a chronology and guide to further reading.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100 1500 1st Table of contents:
Part I Contexts, genres, and traditions
1 Re-inventing the vernacular: Middle English language and its literature
“So gret diversite”: characteristics of Middle English
Middle English in multilingual Britain
Re-inventing English
Changing agendas in Middle English studies
NOTES
2 Textual production and textual communities
NOTES
3 Religious writing: hagiography, pastoralia, devotional and contemplative works
Hagiography
Contemplative and devotional writing
Pastoralia
NOTES
4 Romance
Sources
Romance preoccupations
Style
Authors and audience
The varieties of English romance
NOTES
5 Dialogue, debate, and dream vision
Critical traditions
Literary and intellectual traditions
The uses of Middle English debate/dialogue and dream
NOTES
6 Drama
The mystery plays
The York plays
The Towneley/Wakefield play
The N-town plays
The Chester plays
Morality plays
Miracle plays
Saints plays
NOTES
7 Lyric
Manuscripts and interpretation
Origins: ‘authentic’ survivals
Preaching manuscripts and related religious books
Earlier household collections of verse and prose
Later fourteenth-century religious books
Author collections
Later household and commonplace books
Lyrics and music; songbooks
Conclusions
NOTES
8 Lollard writings
NOTES
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