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Last Words - The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Last Words - The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
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No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by
an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By
ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them
and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most
medieval poems and manuscripts presuppose familiarity with their
authorial or scribal maker. Last Words: The Public Self and the
Social Author in Late Medieval England attempts to recover this
familiarity and understand the literary motivation behind some of
most important fifteenth-century texts and authors. Last Words
captures the public selves of such social authors when they attempt
to extract themselves from the context of a lived life. Driven by
archival research and literary inquiry, this book reveals where
John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how
John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote
his best-known work, the Series. It includes documentary
breakthroughs and archival discoveries, and introduces a new life
record for Hoccleve, identifies the author of a significant
political poem, and reveals the handwriting of John Gower and
George Ashby. Through its investments in archival study, book
history, and literary criticism, Last Words charts the extent to
which medieval English literature was shaped by the social selves
of their authors.
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