Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Documentary Poetics: 1. Bracton, Deguileville and the defense of allegory; 2. Lyric, genre, and the material text; Part II. Langland's Documents: 3. Piers Plowman and the archive of salvation; 4. Writing public: documents in the Piers Plowman tradition; Part III. Identity, Heterodoxy, Documents: 5. Lollard community and the Charters of Christ; 6. Lollard rhetoric and the written record: Margery Baxter and William Thorpe; Epilogue: 'My lordys lettyr & the seel of Cawntyrbery'.

Product details

• Authors: Steiner Emily, Emily Steiner, Emily (University of Pennsylvania) Steiner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.2009
• EAN: 9780521110532
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11053-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies