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The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Hardcover)
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The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
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The Romance of the Rose had a transformative effect on the
multilingual literary culture of fourteenth-century England,
leaving more material evidence for late medieval English-speaking
readers than any other vernacular literary work from mainland
Europe. This book examines its decisive effect on English
literature of the fourteenth century, and new literary experiments
it provoked from writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower,
William Langland, and the author of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight. Linking the English afterlife of the Rose to a host of
ongoing cultural developments in mainland Europe, The Romance of
the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature
reveals the deep interconnectedness of English and European
literary culture. Examining courtly, clerical, and classicising
orientations towards the text, it presents new arguments for the
place of the Rose at the centre of fourteenth-century English
literature, and explores its rich manuscript history to reveal new
evidence about the cultural significance of this love allegory from
thirteenth-century France. The chapters avoid an author-centred
approach, arranging readings of the Rose and its relation with
English literature in constellations that reveal complex unfolding
inter-relation of the diverse readings of the Rose that took place
in fourteenth-century England.
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