Insanity, individuals, and society in late-medieval English literature : the subject of madness

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    • Harper, Stephen

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Insanity, individuals, and society in late-medieval English literature : the subject of madness

Stephen Harper

（Studies in mediaeval literature, v. 26）

Edwin Mellen Press, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-309) and index

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内容説明

This work examines representations of madness in a variety of late-medieval texts, showing how writers exploited the conventional understandings of madness for personal and political purposes. It challenges romantic and progressivist theories about the history of madness.

目次

  • Introduction - modern perspectives on madness in the later Middle Ages
  • madness in the late Middle Ages - conventions, practices and attitudes
  • "knightes that ar so wood" - the meanings of madness in Middle English Romance
  • "reson en bestialite" - madness, animality and social class in book 1 of Gower's "Vox Clamantis"
  • "thou mayst nay werken after thyn owene heed" - madness and rationality in Chaucer's "Miller's" and "Summoner's" tales
  • "by cowntynaunce it is not wist" - Thomas Hoccleve and the subject of madness
  • "so euyl to rewlyn" -madness and authority in "The Book of Margery Kempe"
  • conclusions.

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