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Product details:
- Edition number 1. Auflage
- Publisher Polity Press
- Date of Publication 15 February 2008
- ISBN 9780745624419
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 235x163x22 mm
- Weight 550 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This history restores Middle English literature to the rich culture that produced it by means of five unusual categories (technology, insurgency, statecraft, place, and jurisdiction). It also uses these categories to show how this literature was remarkably effective, able to shape this larger culture in its turn.
MoreLong description:
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function.
This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work.
Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.
"Christopher Cannon s latest book makes one fall in love with Middle English literature all over again. The book ... - I am convinced - will endure as one of the most cogent, sophisticated, and delightful introductions to English medieval literary history."
English
"This is a scintillating cultural history of Middle English literature, punctuated throughout with critical insights ... Cannon s succinct and vivid style allows him to introduce striking bits of philosophical or cultural theory alongside descriptions of crucial technological innovations ... equipped with its bibliographical guides and timeline, Medieval English Literature achieves the enviable aim of providing the student with both a cultural history and plenty of original literary commentary."
Medium Auvum
"Following in the distinguished footsteps of Derek Pearsall and James Simpson, Christopher Cannon offers an exhilarating grand tour of Middle English literature. Cannon's writing is not just efficient but also elegant and pithy. His aphorisms condense knotty arguments and enact complex critical positions with unusual poise and insight. But underpinning his approach throughout is a philologist's ability to listen attentively to the voices of the pages, to display what Nietzsche called the leisurely art of the goldsmith applied to language ."
Vincent Gillespie, University of Oxford
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