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Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature

Autor Rory G. Critten
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 oct 2018
Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, John Audelay and Charles d'Orlans present themselves as the makers not only of their texts, but also of the books that transmitted their writing. This new study argues that they elaborated a "self-publishing pose" with the aim of regaining their audiences' confidence in the face of the compromised social, physical and material conditions they inhabited. Dr Critten shows that while the strategies of self-presentation that these authors develop draw on trends in contemporary literature and book history (such as the proliferation of the "go, litel bok" motif and the increasing popularity of the single-author codex), their approach to writing differs fundamentally from that pursued by their immediate predecessors, Chaucer and Gower, and by their most prominent peer, Lydgate. Rather, in their unusual insistence on their co-identity with their manuscripts, they demonstrate a new awareness of the socially instrumental potential of Middle English writing.

RORY G. CRITTEN is a Matre d'enseignement et de recherche (lecturer) in the English Department at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781843845058
ISBN-10: 1843845059
Pagini: 238
Dimensiuni: 149 x 223 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Boydell and Brewer

Notă biografică

Rory G. Critten

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE SELF-PUBLISHING POSE "YIT FUL FAYN WOLDE I HAUE A MESSAGEER TO RECOMMANDE ME": Thomas Hoccleve's Autograph Books in Fifteenth-Century London and Westminster "HE RED IT OUYR...SCHE SUM-TYM HELPYNG":Collaborating on the Book of Margery Kempe "THIS BOKE I MADE WITH GRET DOLOUR": The Pains of Writing in John the Blind Audelay's Poems and Carols "CONSIDERING THE GRETE SUBTILITE AND CAUTELEUX DISPOSITION OF THE SAID DUC OF ORLIANS": The Political Valence of Charles d'Orléans's English Book of Love Afterword Bibliography