The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 April 2010
- ISBN 9780199229123
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages790 pages
- Size 253x178x48 mm
- Weight 1477 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Medieval Literature today. It discusses texts such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and authors from ?lfric to Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
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The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade.
The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from ?lfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
The Handbook effectively communicates the fascinating interrelationships between Old and Middle English literature
Table of Contents:
Prologue
Speaking of the Medieval
Literary Production
Books and Manuscripts
Textual Copying and Transmission
Professionalisation of Writing
Writing, Authority and Bureaucracy
The Impact of Print
Literary Consumption
Literature and the Cultural Elites
The Verse of Heroes
Insular Romance
A York Primer and its Alphabet: Reading Women in a Lay Household
Performing Communities: Civic Religious Drama
Literature, Clerical and Lay
Change and Continuity: The English Sermon before 1250
Authorising Female Piety
Visions and Visionaries
Writing, Heresy, and the Anticlerical Muse
Acquiring Wisdom: teaching texts and the lore of the people
Literary Realities
The Yorkshire Partisans and the Literature of Popular Discontent
Gothic Turn and the Twelfth-Century Chronicle
Antisocial Reform: Writing Rebellion
Secular Drama
Metaphorical and Real Flowers in Medieval Verse
Complex Identities
Authority, Constraint and the Writing of the Medieval Self
Complex Identities: Selves & Others
Spiritual Identities: The Chosen People
Individuality
Emergent Englishness
Literary Place, Space and Time
Regions and Communities
The City and the Text: London Literature
Provincial Reading Communities
Scottish Writing
Places of the Imagination: The Gawain-Poet
Literary Journeys
Pilgrimages, Travel Writing, and the Medieval Exotic
'Britain': Originary Myths and the Stories of Peoples
Maps and Margins: Other Lands, Other Peoples
Monsters and the Medieval Exotic
Spiritual Quest and Social Space: Texts of Hard Travel for God on Earth and in the Heart
Epilogue
When did 'The Medieval End?' Retrospection, Foresight and The End(s) of the English Middle Ages
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
