A Handbook of Middle English Studies

ISBN-13: 9780470655382 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 464 str.

Opis

A Handbook to Middle English Studies presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore the relationship between critical theory and late medieval literature. The Handbook includes 26 new essays by leading scholars of late medieval literature and showcases the most current cutting–edge theoretical research.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Abbreviations xvii

List of Figures xix

Introduction 1
Marion Turner

Part 1: Selfhood and Community 13

1 Imagination 15
Aranye Fradenburg

2 Memory 33
Anke Bernau

3 Desire 49
Elizabeth Scala

4 Gender 63
Nicola McDonald

5 Sexuality 77
Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger

6 Public Interiorities 93
David Lawton

7 Race 109
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

8 Animality 123
Susan Crane

Part 2: Constructing Texts, Constructing Textual History 135

9 Authorship 137
Vincent Gillespie

10 Audience 155
Joyce Coleman

11 Manuscript 171
Alexandra Gillespie

12 Material Culture 187
Jessica Brantley

13 Genre 207
Julie Orlemanski

14 Aesthetics 223
Maura Nolan

15 Canon Formation 239
Thomas A. Prendergast

16 Periodization 253
David Matthews

Part 3: Politics and Places 267

17 Sovereignty 269
Robert Mills

18 Class 285
Isabel Davis

19 Church 299
Laura Varnam

20 City 315
Jonathan Hsy

21 Margins 331
Corinne Saunders

22 Ecology 347
Carolyn Dinshaw

23 Nation 363
Kathy Lavezzo

24 Language 379
Laura Ashe

25 Postcolonialism 397
John M. Ganim

26 A Global Middle Ages 413
Geraldine Heng

Index 431

O autorze

Marion Turner is a Tutorial Fellow in English literature at Jesus College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth–Century London (2007), and numerous articles on late–medieval literature.

Blurb

A Handbook to Middle English Studies presents a series of original essays that explore and analyze the relationship between critical theory and late medieval literature. Featuring contributions from a variety of literary experts and emerging scholars, readings demonstrate the vitality and rich diversity of medieval literary studies. Essays on well–known but still crucial issues such as authorship, gender, and race are included, as well as readings that examine areas only recently coming under critical scrutiny such as globalization, the environment, and animality. A diverse selection of well–known works and more obscure medieval texts are considered, including the poetry of Chaucer, The Book of Margery Kempe, Piers Plowman, Mandeville s Travels, and various romances of the period. Collectively, the readings demonstrates that the manuscript culture of late medieval literature raises a number of key theoretical issues, and  build upon important recent work revealing how modern critical theory is often rooted in medieval scholarship.