Findern Manuscript: A New Edition of the Unique Poems - Couverture rigide

Martin, Joanna M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1789622417 ISBN 13 : 9781789622416

Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2020

Synopsis

The Findern Manuscript (Cambridge University Library, Ff.1.6): A New Edition of the Unique Poems is the first critical edition of the thirty-four unique and unattributed Middle English poems contained in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.6. This collection of unique poems is significant for its size and thematic coherence, and for the insight it provides into regional literary culture, that of south Derbyshire, in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The poems, mainly short lyric texts, but also the narrative poem, The Parliament of Love, two topical complaints, and a romance known as the 'Alexander-Cassamus Fragment', are significant for the evidence they provide for creative responses to the metropolitan literature of previous generations, especially to the works of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and Lydgate, some of which are also anthologized in the manuscript. The poems explore a range of amatory, religious and philosophical themes in a variety of lyric forms and genres. Their anonymity and experimentation with lyric voice and style make them an important site for exploring the contribution of women, as well as men, to late medieval regional literary culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joanna Martin is Associate Professor of Middle English and Older Scots, School of English, University of Nottingham. Her previous books include (with Emily Wingfield) Pre-Modern Scotland, Literature and Governance, 1420-1587 (Oxford University Press, 2017) and The Maitland Quarto Manuscript: A New Edition of Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys Library MS 1408 (Boydell and Brewer, 2015).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liverpool University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789622417
• ISBN 13: 9781789622416
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible