Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature

Name: Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature
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By Critten, Rory G

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Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, John Audelay and Charles d'Orléans 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 Maître d'enseignement et de recherche (lecturer) in the English Department at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 240
Release Date:: 2018-10-19
Publication Date:: 2018-10-19
Publisher:: D.S.Brewer
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1843845059
ISBN13:: 9781843845058
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 438 g
Height:: 145 cm
Width:: 222 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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