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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English Elaine Treharne (Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Stanford)

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English By Elaine Treharne (Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Stanford)

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by Elaine Treharne (Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Stanford)

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Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Medieval Literature today. It discusses texts such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and authors from AElfric to Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.

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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by Elaine Treharne (Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Stanford)

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 AElfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.

The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English Reviews

Elisabeth Dutton's chapter 'Secular Drama' in The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English...provides an examination of the nature of secular medievaldrama in England against the dominant force of the mystery cycles, which have hitherto garnered the lion's share of critical attention. * Daisy Black and Sarah Brazil, The English Association *

About Elaine Treharne (Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Stanford)

Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that he was Professor of early-modern literature and culture at the University of Leicester. He has written extensively on the drama, poetry, and prose, and the political and religious history of the late medieval period and the sixteenth century in England and Scotland. He has edited the Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama and is co-editor with Thomas Betteridge of The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. Elaine Treharne is Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies at Stanford University. Elaine was previously 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.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE; LITERARY PRODUCTION; LITERARY CONSUMPTION; LITERATURE, CLERICAL, AND LAY; LITERARY REALITIES; COMPLEX IDENTITIES; LITERARY PLACE, SPACE, AND TIME; LITERARY JOURNEYS; EPILOGUE; INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS; GENERAL INDEX

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NLS9780198798088
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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by Elaine Treharne (Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Stanford)
Elaine Treharne (Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities Professor of English, and, by Courtesy, of German Studies, Stanford)
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