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OverviewThis collaborative two-volume literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding current developments in Europe, particularly as initiated by the destruction and disasters of World War II. We begin with the greatest of all European catastrophes: the 1348 bubonic plague, which killed one person in three. Literary cultures helped speed recovery from this unprecedented 'ground zero' experience, providing solace, distraction, and new ideals to live by. Questions of where Europe begins and ends, then as now, and disputes over whom truly 'belongs' on European soil are explored, if not solved, through writing. A war that would last for a century convulsed much of western Europe. Divisions between Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianities endured, and in 1378 the West divided again between popes of Avignon and Rome. Arabic literary cultures linked Fes and Granada to Jerusalem and Damascus; Persian and Turkish writings began to flourish south and west of Constantinople; Jewish intellectuals treasured Arabic texts as well as Hebrew writings; Armenian colophons proved unique. From 1414-18 western nations gathered to heal their papal schism while also exchanging literary, humanist, and musical ideas; visitors from the East hoped for commitment to wider European peace. Freed from nation state historiography, as bequeathed by the nineteenth century, these 82 chapters freshly assess the free movement of European literature in all its variety, local peculiarity, and regenerative power. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Wallace (Judith Rodin Professor of English, Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.50cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 24.50cm Weight: 1.498kg ISBN: 9780198870647ISBN 10: 0198870647 Pages: 816 Publication Date: 21 January 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsVolume I General Introduction I: Paris to Béarn Introduction Paris Chaalis Valenciennes (Hainault) Reims Lusignan Dijon, Burgundy Savoy and the Marquisate of Saluces Toulouse Béarn II: Calais to London Introduction Calais Canterbury Oxford Berkeley Castle Chester and Cheshire York and Yorkshire Lichfield Leicester Lynn, Walsingham, Norwich London, Southwark, Westminster III: St Andrews to Finistère Introduction St Andrews and Aberdeen Kirkwall, Orkney Iceland Dublin Lough Derg Lecan and Ballymote Ceredigion: Strata Florida and Llanbadarn Fawr Glasney College, Penryn, Cornwall Finistère IV: Basel to Danzig Introduction Basel Strasbourg Cologne Brussels Bruges The Hague Deventer and Zwolle Lübeck Vadstena Turku Danzig V: Avignon to Naples Introduction Avignon Lombardy: Milan and Pavia Florence Siena Rome NaplesReviewsThese modern examples, again instances of literary production and response that have to be read in terms of places and layerings, illustrate the key aspect that the book so wonderfully brings to our attention: literature is produced in places that are saturated with text, character, and experience; and these texts migrate, get archived, become parts of libraries and collections, and generate readers and texts in these very places, welcoming itinerant materials and engaging with them. What happens to the reader who dwells in this richness is both a defamiliarization, with regard to established temporal and topographical patterns, and a newfamiliarity with the landscapes and the configurations that make literatures and literary imagination emerge. * Marisa Galvez, Speculum * These modern examples, again instances of literary production and response that have to be read in terms of places and layerings, illustrate the key aspect that the book so wonderfully brings to our attention: literature is produced in places that are saturated with text, character, and experience; and these texts migrate, get archived, become parts of libraries and collections, and generate readers and texts in these very places, welcoming itinerant materials and engaging with them. What happens to the reader who dwells in this richness is both a defamiliarization, with regard to established temporal and topographical patterns, and a newfamiliarity with the landscapes and the configurations that make literatures and literary imagination emerge. * Marisa Galvez, Speculum * Author InformationDavid Wallace, who studied at York (BA), Perugia, and Cambridge (Ph.D.), has been Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, since 1996, with visiting positions at Jerusalem, London, Leipzig, Melbourne, and Princeton. He has travelled and lectured widely across Europe, and also north America, Australia, and Japan, and has made a series of radio documentaries for the BBC. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Premodern Places and The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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