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OverviewThe Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English 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 AElfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elaine Treharne (Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Stanford) , Greg Walker (Masson Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, The University of Edinburgh)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 1.332kg ISBN: 9780198798088ISBN 10: 0198798083 Pages: 790 Publication Date: 26 January 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate 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 ContentsPrologue Elaine Treharne: Speaking of the Medieval Literary Production 1: A.S.G. Edwards: Books and Manuscripts 2: Orietta Da Rold: Textual Copying and Transmission 3: Simon Horobin: Professionalization of Writing 4: Nicholas Perkins: Writing, Authority, and Bureaucracy 5: Elizabeth Evenden: The Impact of Print: The Perceived Worth of the Printed Book in England, 1476-1575 Literary Consumption 6: Ralph Hanna: Literature and the Cultural Elites 7: Jayne Carroll: The Verse of Heroes 8: Sian Echard: Insular Romance 9: Nicola McDonald: A York Primer and its Alphabet: Reading Women in a Lay Household 10: John McGavin: Performing Communities: Civic Religious Drama Literature, Clerical, and Lay 11: Bella Millett: Change and Continuity: The English Sermon before 1250 12: Diane Watt: Authorizing Female Piety 13: Andy Galloway: Visions and Visionaries 14: Mishtooni Bose: Writing, Heresy, and the Anticlerical Muse 15: Dan Anlezark: Acquiring Wisdom: Teaching Texts and the Lore of the People Literary Realities 16: Andrew Prescott: The Yorkshire Partisans and the Literature of Popular Discontent 17: Tom Bredehoft: Gothic Turn and the Twelfth-Century Chronicle 18: Stephen Kelly: Antisocial Reform: Writing Rebellion 19: Elizabeth Dutton: Secular Drama 20: Gillian Rudd: Metaphorical and Real Flowers in Medieval Verse Complex Identities 21: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: Authority, Constraint, and the Writing of the Medieval Self 22: Kathy Lavezzo: Complex Identities: Selves & Others 23: Samantha Zacher: The Chosen People: Spiritual Identities 24: Alcuin Blamires: Individuality 25: Jacqueline Stodnick: Emergent Englishness Literary Place, Space, and Time 26: Helen Fulton: Regions and Communities 27: Alison Wiggins: The City and the Text: London Literature 28: Wendy Scase: Provincial Reading Communities 29: Elizabeth Elliott: Scottish Writing 30: Thorlac Turville-Petre: Places of the Imagination: The Gawain-Poet Literary Journeys 31: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: Pilgrimages, Travel Writing, and the Medieval Exotic 32: Anke Bernau: 'Britain': Originary Myths and the Stories of Peoples 33: Alfred Hiatt: Maps and Margins: Other Lands, Other Peoples 34: Asa Simon Mittman and Susan Kim: Monsters and the Medieval Exotic in Medieval England 35: Mary Baine Campbell: Spiritual Quest and Social Space: Texts of Hard Travel for God on Earth and in the Heart Epilogue Greg Walker: When did 'The Medieval End?' Retrospection, Foresight and The End(s) of the English Middle Ages Index of Manuscripts General IndexReviewsAuthor InformationGreg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that he was Professor of early-modern literature and culture at the University of Leicester. He has written extensively on the drama, poetry, and prose, and the political and religious history of the late medieval period and the sixteenth century in England and Scotland. He has edited the Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama and is co-editor with Thomas Betteridge of The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies at Stanford University. Elaine was previously Professor of Early English at Florida State University and Visiting Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Leicester. She has published extensively on Old and Middle English literature and particularly religious prose, and she works on medieval manuscripts and their contents, focusing recently on the architextuality of early books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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