Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture (eBook)

Essays in Honor of James M. Dean

Brian Gastle, Erick Kelemen (Herausgeber)

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2018
268 Seiten
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-1-61149-677-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection focuses on the connections between the cultural, material, and aesthetic aspects of later medieval English literature. Essays address texts such as Piers Plowman, The Book of Margery Kempe, Confessio Amantis, and the Canterbury Tales in their material and cultural contexts.

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The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, "e;Textual Material,"e; reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those ideas manifest in later medieval English texts. Essays address, for example, affect in The Book of Margery Kempe, rhetoric in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, anarchy in late medieval political texts, and temporality in Gower's Confessio Amantis. The essays in the second section, "e;Material Texts,"e; examine physical objects - from pilgrim badges, to manuscripts, to money, to early printed editions - and the cultural behaviors associated with them, interpreting these objects and exploring their connections to the important literary and political texts of the age such as Piers Plowman, Lydgate's Troy Book, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. All of the essays in this collection emerge from the relationships and connections between the issues that characterize Jim Dean's work: the cultural, material, and aesthetic aspects of later medieval English literature. So too do they reflect a movement in medieval literary studies presaged by Dean's career of scholarship and teaching, that critical approaches to literary texts are best undertaken with an understanding of the complex cultural and historical milieu that defines both the production of those texts and the production of our own work on those texts.

Autor

Brian Gastle is professor of English at Western Carolina University.Erick Kelemen taught at Wabash College, the University of Missouri, the University of Kentucky, and Fordham University.

Inhalt

DedicationList of FiguresIntroductionBrian Gastle and Erick KelemenPart I. Textual Material1. More Than Words Can Say?: Late Medieval Affective VocabulariesMark Amsler2. The Motives of Reeds: The Wife of Bath’s Midas and Literary TraditionKarla Taylor3. A Taxonomy of Medieval English Travel WritingsChristian K. Zacher4.Lady Bertilak and the Rhetoric of Women in Sir Gawain and the Green KnightJoseph Turner5. Anarchy in the UK: Chaos and Community in Late Medieval Political WritingsJohn M. Ganim6. Amans the MemoriousR.F. YeagerPart II. Material Texts7. Ampullae and Badges: Pilgrim Paraphernalia in Late Medieval EnglandKathryn McKinley8. “Of crafty bildyng & werkyng most roial”: Lydgate’s Allusions to the Crafts and the Role of Making in Medieval Civic PoetryScott Lightsey9. Read with Your Hands and Not with Your Eyes: Touching Books of HoursGabrielle Parkin10. The Tales of Two Transactions: The Franklin, the Shipman, Feudalism, and the Medieval Atlantic Maritime World SystemCraig E. Bertolet11. Owen Rogers and Piers Plowman’s Crede, 1561: A Census of STC 19908Lawrence WarnerBibliographyContributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2018
• Co-Autor: Mark Amsler, Joseph Turner, Lawrence Warner, R.F. Yeager, Christian Zacher, Craig E. Bertolet, John M. Ganim, Brian Gastle, Erick Kelemen, Scott Lightsey, Kathryn McKinley, Gabrielle Parkin, Karla Taylor
• Zusatzinfo: 14 Illustrations including: - 10 Black & White Illustrations; - 4 Color Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: history of ideas • Literary Studies • material culture • Medieval England • Medieval Literature • Middle Ages
• ISBN-10: 1-61149-677-2 / 1611496772
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61149-677-2 / 9781611496772