Later Medieval English Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-812218-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 728 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1212 g

The remarkable and diverse literature produced in the fascinating later medieval period - one of war, transitions, and challenges - is not as widely known as it deserves to be. In this descriptive guide the pre-eminent scholar of medieval literature Douglas Gray provides the non-specialist reader with an illuminating account of the extensive literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century. Placing the works under consideration in their landscape of cultural history, Gray's survey includes a valuable chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Abbreviations

- Chronology

- I: Introduction

- 1: The World: Centres and Edges

- 2: Bodies, Souls, and Minds

- 3: Media: Image and Word

- II: Prose

- 4: 'Practical' Prose

- 5: Malory and Prose Romance

- 6: Later Prose Romance: Caxton to Berners

- 7: Tales, Jests, and Novelles in Prose

- 8: 'Book of Ensaumples and Doctryne': The Prose of Moral Instruction

- 9: Religious Prose I: Introduction, Lollards and Answers to Them; Sermons and Books of Religious Instruction

- 10: Religious Prose II: Mystical and Visionary Writing; Religious Narratives; Devotional Texts; The Eve of the Reformation

- III: Poetry

- 11: Hoccleve and Lydgate

- 12: Learned, Encyclopedic, and Didactic Verse

- 13: 'Chaucerian' Poems

- 14: Lyrics

- 15: Romances and Tales

- 16: Hawes, Barclay, and Skelton

- IV: Scottish Writing

- 17: Introductory

- 18: Verse: Wintoun, Hary, The Kingis Quair, The Qare of Jelusy, The Buke of the Howlat

- 19: Robert Henryson; Narratives and Romances in Verse

- 20: William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas

- V: Drama

- 21: Prologue

- 22: Mystery Cycles I

- 23: Mystery Cycles II

- 24: Morality Plays and Interludes

- Works Cited

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkein Professor, at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose (with Norman Davis and others); The Oxford Companion to Chaucer; and the Penguin edition of the Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.