Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature - Couverture souple

Steiner, Emily

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 052111053X ISBN 13 : 9780521110532

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The literature of this period, from Passion lyrics to Lollard sermons, abounds in documentary language and metaphors. Steiner argues that documentary culture (including charters, testaments, patents and seals) enabled writers to think in new ways about the conditions of textual production in late medieval England. She explains that the distinctive rhetoric, material form and ritual performance of legal documents offered writers of Chaucer's generation and the generation succeeding him a model of literary practice. Covering a wide variety of medieval texts: sermons, lyrics, Piers Plowman, Mum and the Sothsegger, The Book of Margery Kempe, heretical writings and trial records, this study will be of interest to scholars of medieval literary studies and medieval studies in general.

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À propos de l'auteur

Emily Steiner is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the editor (with Candace Barrington) of The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Late Medieval England (2002).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052111053X
• ISBN 13: 9780521110532
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
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