Reform and cultural revolution
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Reform and cultural revolution
(The Oxford English literary history / general editor, Jonathan Bate, v. 2. 1350-1547)
Oxford University Press, 2002
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Heralding a new era in literary studies, the Oxford English Literary History breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon by focusing on the contexts in which the authors wrote and how their work was shaped by the times in which they lived.
Each volume offers a fresh, ground-breaking re-assessment of the authors, their works, and the events and ideas which shaped the literary voice of their age. Written by some of the leading scholars in the field, under the general-editorship of Jonathan Bate, the Oxford English Literary History is essential reading for everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English literature.
Unlike most medieval literary histories, which end with the coming of the Tudors, this volume continues into the mid-sixteenth century, and registers the impact of Henry VIII's cultural revolution and the linking of Church and State after the break with Rome. Although potent traditions praise both 'Reformation' and 'Renaissance' as moments of liberation, this book argues the reverse. Simpson shows that the emergent centralized culture narrowed and simplified the literary possibilities that had
been enjoyed by late medieval writers. The consequences for literature, and even for the varieties of English in which it was written, were dramatic.
From roughly 1350, where the volume starts, a wide range of literary kinds flourished, in a wide range of dialects. Many of these texts can be described as a mixed commonwealth of styles and genres, such as Langland's Piers Plowman, Gower's Confessio Amantis, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the dramatic 'mystery' cycles, and Malory's Works. In the sixteenth century this stylistic variety gave way to a literary practice that prized coherence and unity above all.
Some kinds of writing, especially romance, survived. Others, such as Langland's brand of ecclesiology, the 'Aristotelian' politics of Gower and Hoccleve, and the feminine visionary mode of Julian of Norwich, became untenable. Religious cycle drama outlived the 1530s but was suppressed within the next forty years. Sixteenth-century
writing, by figures such as Wyatt, Surrey, and the dramatist John Bale, emerges in this book as the product of profoundly divided writers, torn between their commitment to the new order and their awareness of its painful, often destructive strictures.
目次
- General Editor's Preface
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Presentation of Texts
- Introduction
- 1. The Melancholy of John Leland and the Beginnings of English Literary History
- 2. The Energies of John Lydgate
- 3. The Tragic
- 4. The Elegiac
- 5. The Political
- 6. The Comic
- 7. Edifying the Church
- 8. Moving Images
- 9. The Biblical
- 10. The Dramatic
- Envoi
- Author Bibliographies
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Works Cited
- Index
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