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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
Edited by Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker
792 pages
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7 black-and-white halftones
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246x171mm
978-0-19-922912-3
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Hardback
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15 April 2010
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- 44 newly commissioned essays by world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices
- A comprehensive and dynamic new guide to the range of medieval literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early sixteenth century
- Contemporary approaches to literature, from postcolonial to ecocritical theories, applied throughout
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on
cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade.
The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary
politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.Readership: Students and scholars of Medieval literature, and manuscript studies, and history
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Edited by Elaine Treharne, Professor of Early English, Florida State University, and Greg Walker, Masson Professor of English Literature, University of Edinburgh
Greg Walker is Masson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the history, literature, and drama of the late-medieval and Renaissance periods in England and Scotland. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the English Association.
Elaine Treharne is Professor of Early English at Florida State University and Visiting Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Leicester. She has published extensively on Old and Middle English literature and particularly religious prose, and she works on medieval manuscripts and their contents, focusing recently on the architextuality of early books.
Contributors:
Daniel Anlezark, University of Sydney
Anke Bernau, University of Manchester
Alcuin Blamires, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Mishtooni Bose, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
Thomas Bredehoft, West Virginia University
Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis University
Jayne Carroll, University of Nottingham
Orietta Da Rold, University of Leicester
Elisabeth Dutton, University of Oxford
Siân Echard, University of British Columbia
A.S.G. Edwards, De Montfort University
Elizabeth Elliott, University of Edinburgh
Helen Fulton, Swansea University
Andy Galloway, Cornell University
Ralph Hanna, Keble College, University of Oxford
Alfred Hiatt, University of Leeds
Simon Horobin, Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Stephen Kelly, Queen's University Belfast
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, University of Notre Dame
Susan M. Kim, Illinois State University
Kathy Lavezzo, University of Iowa
Nicola McDonald is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of York
John McGavin, University of Southampton
Bella Millett, University of Southampton
Asa Simon Mitman, California State University, Chico
Nicholas Perkins, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford
Andrew Prescott, University of Wales, Lampeter
Gillian Rudd, University of Liverpool
Wendy Scase, University of Birmingham
Jacqueline Stodnick, University of Texas at Arlington
Elaine Treharne, Florida State University
Thorlac Turville-Petre, University of Nottingham
Greg Walker, University of Edinburgh
Diane Watt, Aberystwyth University
Alison Wiggins, University of Glasgow
Samantha Zacher, Cornell University
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"The Handbook effectively communicates the fascinating interrelationships between Old and Middle English literature" - Joanna Martin, Times Literary Supplement "The editors of this volume are to be commended for assembling these timely, well-written essays... should be required reading for anyone interested in medieval literature" - A. L. Kaufman, Choice
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Prologue
Elaine Treharne: Speaking of the Medieval
Literary Production
1: A.S.G. Edwards: Books and Manuscripts
2: Orietta Da Rold: Textual Copying and Transmission
3: Simon Horobin: Professionalisation of Writing
4: Nicholas Perkins: Writing, Authority and Bureaucracy
5: Elizabeth Evenden: The Impact of Print
Literary Consumption
1: Ralph Hanna: Literature and the Cultural Elites
2: Jayne Carroll: The Verse of Heroes
3: Siân Echard: Insular Romance
4: Nicola McDonald: A York Primer and its Alphabet: Reading Women in a Lay Household
5: John McGavin: Performing Communities: Civic Religious Drama
Literature, Clerical and Lay
1: Bella Millett: Change and Continuity: The English Sermon before 1250
2: Diane Watt: Authorising Female Piety
3: Andy Galloway: Visions and Visionaries
4: Mishtooni Bose: Writing, Heresy, and the Anticlerical Muse
5: Dan Anlezark: Acquiring Wisdom: teaching texts and the lore of the people
Literary Realities
1: Andrew Prescott: The Yorkshire Partisans and the Literature of Popular Discontent
2: Tom Bredehoft: Gothic Turn and the Twelfth-Century Chronicle
3: Stephen Kelly: Antisocial Reform: Writing Rebellion
4: Elizabeth Dutton: Secular Drama
5: Gillian Rudd: Metaphorical and Real Flowers in Medieval Verse
Complex Identities
1: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton: Authority, Constraint and the Writing of the Medieval Self
2: Kathy Lavezzo: Complex Identities: Selves & Others
3: Samantha Zacher: Spiritual Identities: The Chosen People
4: Alcuin Blamires: Individuality
5: Jacqueline Stodnick: Emergent Englishness
Literary Place, Space and Time
1: Helen Fulton: Regions and Communities
2: Alison Wiggins: The City and the Text: London Literature
3: Wendy Scase: Provincial Reading Communities
4: Elizabeth Elliott: Scottish Writing
5: Thorlac Turville-Petre: Places of the Imagination: The Gawain-Poet
Literary Journeys
1: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: Pilgrimages, Travel Writing, and the Medieval Exotic
2: Anke Bernau: 'Britain': Originary Myths and the Stories of Peoples
3: Alfred Hiatt: Maps and Margins: Other Lands, Other Peoples
4: Asa Simon Mittman and Susan Kim: Monsters and the Medieval Exotic
5: Mary Baine Campbell: Spiritual Quest and Social Space: Texts of Hard Travel for God on Earth and in the Heart
Epilogue
Greg Walker: When did 'The Medieval End?' Retrospection, Foresight and The End(s) of the English Middle Ages
Index of Manuscripts
General Index
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