Corrie A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-83597-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture

This concise companion examines contexts that are essential tounderstanding and interpreting writing in English produced in theperiod between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the bookexplore ways in which Middle English literature is 'different' fromthe literature of other periods. The book includes discussion ofsuch issues as the religious and historical background to MiddleEnglish literature, the circumstances and milieux in which it wasproduced, its linguistic features, and the manuscripts in which ithas been preserved. Amongst the great range of writers and writingsdiscussed, the book considers the works of the most widely readMiddle English author, Chaucer, against the background of theperiod that he both typifies and subverts.
* An accessible resource that examines contexts essential tounderstanding and interpreting writing of the Middle Englishperiod
* Chapters explore the distinctiveness of Middle Englishliterature
* Brings together discussion and analysis by an internationalteam of Middle English specialists, incorporating fresh materialand new insights
* Includes analysis of Chaucer's writings, and considers them inrelation to the work of his Middle English predecessors,contemporaries and successors
* Incorporates discussion of issues steering the perception ofMiddle English literature in the present day

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corrie, Marilyn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors viii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Marilyn Corrie
Part I Key Contexts 7
1 Signs and Symbols 9
Barry Windeatt
2 Religious Belief 32
Marilyn Corrie
3 Women and Literature 54
Catherine Sanok
4 The Past 77
Andrew Galloway
Part II The Production of Middle English Literature 97
5 Production and Dissemination 99
Alexandra Gillespie
6 The Author 120
Jane Griffiths
Part III Writing in Middle English; Writing in England 143
7 Language 145
Jeremy J. Smith
8 Translation and Adaptation 166
Helen Cooper
9 Contemporary Events 188
Helen Barr
Part IV Middle English Literature in the Post- Medieval World 209
10 Manuscripts and Modern Editions 211
Daniel Wakelin
11 The Afterlife of Middle English Literature 232
David Matthews
Index 253

Über Autor(innen)

MARILYN CORRIE teaches in the English Department at University College London. Her research interests include the trilingual literary culture of post-Norman Conquest England; the transmission of continental French literature to England in the thirteenth and early-fourteenth centuries; English and French manuscripts containing literary texts; and the interface between theology and literary writing in the Middle Ages, especially in the fifteenth century. Having published articles and essays relating to each of these subjects, she is currently working on a book about Christian theology, magic and literature in the later Middle Ages.