Middle English literature : a cultural history
著者
書誌事項
Middle English literature : a cultural history
Polity, 2008
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-244) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Introduction. 1. Technology.
Romance.
Confession.
Printing.
2. Insurgency.
Complaint.
Satire.
The Rise of English.
3. Statecraft.
Censorship.
Propaganda.
Counsel.
4. Place.
The Schoolroom.
Religious Communities.
The Household.
Cities and Towns.
The Way or the Street.
5. Jurisdiction.
The Church.
Laughter.
The Aesthetic.
Resources for Research.
Chronology.
Works Cited.
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