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Informationen zum Autor David Watt is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. He has published articles on Hoccleve and book history and has contributed to the Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Klappentext The first book-length study of Thomas Hoccleve's 'Series' (1419-21), a medieval compilation of texts that exemplify several different literary forms: complaint, dialogue, tale and moralization, and treatise. It combines close textual reading with study of the manuscripts. Zusammenfassung The first book-length study of Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘Series’ (1419-21), a medieval compilation of texts that exemplify several different literary forms: complaint, dialogue, tale and moralization, and treatise. It combines close textual reading with study of the manuscripts. List of Illustrations Note on Editions and Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's Series 1. 'Among the Prees': San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 111 and the Audience in and for the Series 2. 'I this book shal make': San Marino, Huntington Library, MS HM 744 and the Structure of the Series 3. 'That Labour Y Forsook': Durham, University Library, MS Cosin V.iii.9 and the End of the Series 4. 'The Substaunce of My Memory': London, British Library, MS Additional 24062 and The Re-Formation of Character in the Series 5. 'My Skyn To Turne': Beholding the Series in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53 Conclusion: 'Go, Smal Book' Bibliography Index
