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Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the
poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research,
and opens up new avenues for future studies. John Skelton is a
central literary figure and the leading poet during the first
thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging
and even contradictory for modern audiences. This book aims to
provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works,
setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts.
Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes on to
cover all the major aspects of his poetry, from the literary
traditions in which he wrote and the form of his compositions to
the manuscript contexts and later reception. SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is
Professor of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the
University of Groningen; JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus)
of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin.
Contributors: Tom Betteridge, Julia Boffey, John Burrow, David
Carlson, Helen Cooper, Elisabeth Dutton,A.S.G. Edwards, Jane
Griffiths, Nadine Kuipers, Carol Meale, John Scattergood, Sebastian
Sobecki, Greg Waite
This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in
which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late
fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland,
and Hoccleve, as well as the anonymous authors of Pearl, Saint
Erkenwald, and a pair of metrical romances. Six of the pieces
address general issues, with some reference to French and Italian
writings ('Autobiographical Poetry in the Middle Ages', for
example, or 'The Poet and the Book'); but most of them concentrate
on particular English poems, such as Chaucer's Envoy to Scogan,
Gower's Confessio Amantis, Langland's Piers Plowman, and Hoccleve's
Series. Although some of the essays take account of the poet's life
and times ('Chaucer as Petitioner', 'Hoccleve and the 'Court''),
most are mainly concerned with the meaning and structure of the
poems. What, for example, does the hero of Ipomadon hope to achieve
by fighting, as he always does, incognito? Why do the stories in
Piers Plowman all peter out so inconclusively? And how can it be
that the narrator in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess so persistently
fails to understand what he is told?
Essays exploring different aspects of late medieval and early
modern manuscript and book culture. Late medieval manuscripts and
early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It
includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval
manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and
of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of
medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland,
Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the
career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly
interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements.
Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the University of
Bristol; the late Derek Pearsall was Professor Emeritus at Harvard
University and Honorary Research Professor at the University of
York. Contributors: Nicolas Barker, J.A. Burrow, A.I. Doyle, Martha
W. Driver, Susanna Fein, Jane Griffiths, Lotte Hellinga, Alfred
Hiatt, Simon Horobin, Richard Linenthal,Carol M. Meale, Orietta Da
Rold, John Scattergood, Kathleen L. Scott, Toshiyuki Takamiya, John
J. Thompson.
A full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of
Scottish poetry in the middle ages. The poetry written in Scotland
between the late fourteenth and the early years of the sixteenth
century is exceptionally rich and varied. The contributions
collected here, by leading specialists in the field, provide a
comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the material. There are
introductions to the literary culture of late medieval Scotland and
its historical context; separate studies of the writings of James
I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and Sir David
Lyndsay; and essays devoted to general themes or genres, including
the historiographical tradition, religious verse, romances, and the
legendary history of Alexander the Great. A final chapter provides
bibliographical guidance on the major advances in the criticism and
scholarly study of this poetry during the last thirty years.
Contributors: PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, JULIA BOFFEY, JOHN BURROW,
ELIZABETH EWAN, R. JAMES GOLDSTEIN, DOUGLAS GRAY, JANET HADLEY
WILLIAMS, R. J. LYALL, ANNE MCKIMM, JOANNA MARTIN, RHIANNON PURDIE,
NICOLA ROYAN.
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A Companion to Gower (Paperback)
Sian Echard; Contributions by A.G. Rigg, Ardis Butterfield, Derek Pearsall, Diane Watt, …
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An introduction to Gower and his work, focusing on his sources,
historical context and literary tradition; special attention is
paid to Confessio Amantis. Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate were the
three poets of their time considered to have founded the English
poetic tradition. Gower, like Lydgate, eventually fell victim to
changing tastes but is now enjoying renewed scholarly
attention.Current work in manuscript studies, linguistic studies,
vernacularity, translation, politics, and the contexts of literary
production has found a rich source in Gower's trilingual, learned,
and politically engaged corpus. This Companion to Gower offers
essays by scholars from Britain and North America, covering Gower's
works in all three of his languages; they consider his
relationships to his literary sources, and to his social, material
and historical contexts; and they offer an overview of the
manuscript, linguistic, and editorial traditions. Five essays
concentrate specifically on the Confessio Amantis, Gower's major
Middle English work, reading it in terms of its relationship to
vernacular and classical models, its poetic style, and its
treatment of such themes as politics, kingship, gender, sexuality,
authority, authorship and self-governance. A reference
bibliography, arranged as a chronologyof criticism, concludes the
volume. Contributors J.A. BURROW, ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, NATHALIE
COHEN, E.H. COOPER, SIAN ECHARD, ROBERT EPSTEIN, JOHN HINES, EDWARD
MOORE, DEREK PEARSALL, RUSSELL PECK, A.G. RIGG, SIMON ROFFEY,
JEREMY J. SMITH, DIANE WATT, WINTHROP WETHERBEE, ROBERT F. YEAGER.
SIAN ECHARD is associate professor, Department of English,
University of British Columbia. The Companion can serve as an
introduction to Gower and his works for the advanced undergraduate
or graduate student, and the essays will also be of interest to
experts in Middle English studies and in Gower.
A full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of
Scottish poetry in the middle ages. The poetry written in Scotland
between the late fourteenth and the early years of the sixteenth
century is exceptionally rich and varied. The contributions
collected here, by leading specialists in the field, provide a
comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the material. There are
introductions to the literary culture of late medieval Scotland and
its historical context; separate studies of the writings of James
I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and Sir David
Lyndsay; and essays devoted to general themes or genres, including
the historiographical tradition, religious verse, romances, and the
legendary history of Alexander the Great. A final chapter provides
bibliographical guidance on the major advances in the criticism and
scholarly study of this poetry during the last thirty years.
Contributors: PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, JULIA BOFFEY, JOHN BURROW,
ELIZABETH EWAN, R. JAMES GOLDSTEIN, DOUGLAS GRAY, JANET HADLEY
WILLIAMS, R. J. LYALL, ANNE MCKIMM, JOANNA MARTIN, RHIANNON PURDIE,
NICOLA ROYAN.
New investigations into Charles d'Orleans' under-rated poem, its
properties and its qualities. The compilation Fortunes Stabilnes,
the English poetry Charles d'Orleans wrote in the course of his
twenty-five year captivity in England after Agincourt, requires a
larger lens than that of Chaucerianism, through which it has most
often been viewed. A fresh view from another perspective, one that
attends to form and style, as well as to the poet's French
traditions, reveals a more conceptually complex and innovative kind
of poetry than we have seen until now. The essays collected here
reassess him in the light of recent work in Middle English studies.
They detail those qualities that make his text one of the most
accomplished and moving of the late Middle Ages: Charles's use of
English, his metrical play, his felicity with formes fixes lyrics,
his innovative use of the dits structure and lyric sequences, and
finally, above all, his ability to write beautiful poetry. Overall,
they bring out the underappreciated contribution made by Charles to
the canon of English poetry.
Material on the production and transmission of medieval literature
and the early formation of the canon of English poetry. A wide
range of poets is covered - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, the Gawain
poet, Langland, and Lydgate, along with the translator of
Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis. The Turnament of Totenham is
read in termsof theory of the carnivalesque and popular culture,
and major contributions are made to current linguistic, editorial
and codicological controversies. Going beyond the Middle Ages, the
book also considers the sixteenth-century reception of Chaucer's
Legend of Good Women and Post-Reformation reading of Lydgate. It is
essential reading for anyone interested in the production and
transmission of medieval literature, and in the early formation of
the canon of English poetry. Contributors: JULIA BOFFEY, J.A.
BURROW, CHRISTOPHER CANNON, MARTHA DRIVER, SIAN ECHARD, A.S.G.
EDWARDS, KATE D. HARRIS, S.S. HUSSEY, KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON, CAROL
M. MEALE, LINNE R. MOONEY, CHARLOTTE C. MORSE, V.I.J. SCATTERGOOD,
ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA, ESTELLE STUBBS, JOHN THOMPSON.
Wide-ranging essays engaging with all aspects of medieval romance,
from textual studies to historical sources. The essays in this
volume reflect the range and diversity of approach and of critical
stance which have characterised romance studies in recent years.
Amongst the areas of interest addressed are those of generic
definition; the role of romance in relation to emergent ideas of
nationalism; the complex associations between gender and genre, and
between historical events and their expression in literature. Other
issues explored are the transmission and reception of texts; the
nature of the audiences; and the implications of critical theory
for the reading of medieval romance. Contributors: MALDWYN MILLS,
J.A. BURROW, DONNA CRAWFORD, A.S.G. EDWARDS, ARLYN DIAMOND, JOCELYN
WOGAN-BROWNE, JOHN J. THOMPSON, THORLAC TURVILLE-PETRE, DIANA
SPEED, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, COLIN RICHMOND, CAROL M. MEALE.
This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in
which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late
fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland,
and Hoccleve, as well as the anonymous authors of Pearl, Saint
Erkenwald, and a pair of metrical romances. Six of the pieces
address general issues, with some reference to French and Italian
writings ('Autobiographical Poetry in the Middle Ages', for
example, or 'The Poet and the Book'); but most of them concentrate
on particular English poems, such as Chaucer's Envoy to Scogan,
Gower's Confessio Amantis, Langland's Piers Plowman, and Hoccleve's
Series. Although some of the essays take account of the poet's life
and times ('Chaucer as Petitioner', 'Hoccleve and the 'Court''),
most are mainly concerned with the meaning and structure of the
poems. What, for example, does the hero of Ipomadon hope to achieve
by fighting, as he always does, incognito? Why do the stories in
Piers Plowman all peter out so inconclusively? And how can it be
that the narrator in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess so persistently
fails to understand what he is told?
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