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Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture - Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Hardcover)
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Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture - Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Hardcover)
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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, "Textual Material,"
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, "Material
Texts," 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.
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