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Informationen zum Autor Robert DeMaria, Jr. is the Henry Noble MacCracken Professor of English Literature at Vassar College, USA. He is the General Editor of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson, the editor of the Johnsonian News Letter , and the author of Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning (1986), The Life of Samuel Johnson (Blackwell, 1993), and Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading (1997). He is also the editor of Classical Literature and Its Reception (with Robert Brown, Blackwell, 2007) and British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1996; 3rd edn, 2008). Heesok Chang is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, USA. He is the author of the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell title Handbook to British Modernism , and is currently working on a book on literary modernism and media technologies. In addition, he is the author of articles on critical theory and literary modernism. Samantha Zacher is an Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Cornell University, USA, where she teaches Old and Middle English Literature. She is the author of Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies ( 2009) and co-editor, with Andy Orchard, of New Readings in the Vercelli Book (2009). Her new monograph, Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People is forthcoming (2013). She is also editing a new collection of essays entitled Imagining the Jew: Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture (forthcoming, 2013). Klappentext A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject.* Provides the most inclusive and far-reaching overview of British literature from 700-2000, across four volumes and over 100 chapters* Discusses the historical, social, political, domestic, linguistic, institutional and material contexts in which British literature has been produced* Written by an internationally diverse range of expert contributors including both distinguished academics and up-and-coming young stars* Joins readings across geographical, cultural, institutional, economic and mediological contexts* Demonstrates to students and teachers alike a wide range of possible approaches to the study of British literature* Includes a general index and a thematic table of contents to enable readers to navigate the development of British Literature* For more information about the online edition viait www.britishliteraturecompanion.com Zusammenfassung A Companion to British Literature is a comprehensive guide to British literature and the contexts and ideas that have shaped and transformed it over the past thirteen centuries. Its four volumes cover literature from all periods and places in Britain and demonstrate the wide variety of approaches to studying the subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis Volume I: Medieval Literature 700 - 1450 Full Table of Contents ix Editors xix Notes on Contributors to Volume I xx General Introduction xxiv Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Medieval Literature xxxi Samantha Zacher Chronology 43 - 1476 xlvii 1 The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 1 Karl Reichl 2 Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 16 Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe 3 Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 30 Emily V. Thornbury 4 Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 48 Paul E. Szarmach ...
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Volume I: Medieval Literature 700 - 1450
Full Table of Contents ix
Editors xix
Notes on Contributors to Volume I xx
General Introduction xxiv
Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Introduction to Medieval Literature xxxi
Samantha Zacher
Chronology 43 - 1476 xlvii
1 The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 1
Karl Reichl
2 Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 16
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
3 Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 30
Emily V. Thornbury
4 Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 48
Paul E. Szarmach
5 The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints' Legends in John of Tynemouth's Sanctilogium 65
Virginia Blanton
6 Racial Imagination and the Theater of War: Captivity and Execution in Richard, Coer de Lion 81
Suzanne M. Yeager
7 The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After 1066 97
Neil Cartlidge
8 Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul 114
Liz Herbert McAvoy
9 Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation: The Narrative Pragmatics of an Ideal 130
Christine Chism
10 Writing Revolution 146
Marion Turner
11 The Romance Genre 161
Corinne Saunders
12 Interior Visions: Piers Plowman and the Dream Vision Genre 180
Michael Calabrese
13 British Chaucer 202
John M. Ganim
14 Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England 215
Andrew Galloway
15 Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture 232
Denise L. Despres
16 Sources, Analogues, Creativity 243
Tim William Machan
17 Performing Communities: The Variety of Dramatic Practices in Medieval England 256
Christina M. Fitzgerald
18 Old English and Anglo-Latin: The Odd Couple 273
Andy Orchard
19 Before the Makars: Older Scots Literature Under the Early Stewart Kings 293
Rhiannon Purdie
20 Originating Britain: Welsh Literature and the Arthurian Tradition 308
Helen Fulton
21 Writing from the "Other Shore" and the Beginnings of Vernacular Literature in Ireland 323
Joseph Falaky Nagy
22 The Circulation and Compilation of Devotional Books: Assessing the Material Evidence of Women's Reading 337
Jacqueline Jenkins
23 Collectors and Collections: Libraries and Their Social and Private Functions 355
David N. Bell
24 In Praise of Power: Prince and Poet in Fifteenth-Century Court Poetry 369
Robert J. Meyer-Lee
25 Word and Image 384
Elaine Treharne
26 New Technologies: From Manuscript to Print 403
Sian Echard
Selected References and Further Reading 418
Index to Volume I 435
Volume II: Early Modern Literature 1450 - 1660
Full Table of Contents ix
Editors xix
Notes on Contributors to Volume II xx
General Introduction xxv
Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Introduction to Early Modern Literature xxxii
Robert DeMaria, Jr.
Chronology 1450 - 1662 xxxix
1 The Spectral Past: Medieval Literature in the Early Modern Period 1
David Matthews
2 The Fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton 16
Willy Maley and Adam Swann
3 Robert Burton and the Discontents of Print 29
David J. Baker
4 Anglo-European Literary Relations in the Sixteenth Century 40
Alessandra Petrina
5 Mapping the British Archipelago in the Renaissance 54
Stewart Mottram
6 Renaissance or Reformation? 70
Michael Payne
7 Religious Reading and Writing in an Age of Bloodshed 82
Achsah Guibbory
8 Translation
