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OverviewWriting the North of England in the Middle Ages offers a literary history of the North-South divide, examining the complexities of the relationship – imaginative, material, and political – between North and South in a wide range of texts. Through sustained analysis of the North-South divide as it emerges in the literature of medieval England, this study illustrates the convoluted dynamic of desire and derision of the North by the rest of country. Joseph Taylor dissects England's problematic sense of nationhood as one which must be negotiated and renegotiated from within, rather than beyond, national borders. Providing fresh readings of texts such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the fifteenth-century Robin Hood ballads and the Towneley plays, this book argues for the North's vital contribution to processes of imagining nation in the Middle Ages and shows that that regionalism is both contained within and constitutive of its apparent opposite, nationalism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph Taylor (University of Alabama, Huntsville)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9781009182119ISBN 10: 1009182110 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 22 December 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'... a vital contribution to a growing body of scholarship on medieval English regional identities ...' Emily Dolmans, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 'Highly recommended.' A. L. Kaufman, Choice Author InformationJoseph Taylor is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where he teaches courses in medieval literature and history of the English language. He is the co-editor (with Randy P. Schiff) of The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life and Law in Medieval Britain (2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |