Thomas Hoccleve - Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer

Informationen zum Autor Sebastian J. Langdell is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Baylor University. He is a founding member of the International Hoccleve Society, and has previously held lectureships at three Oxford colleges. He is currently at work on a new critical edition of Thomas Hoccleve's shorter poems for the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series. Klappentext Offers a significant new reading of the late medieval poet Thomas Hoccleve, illustrating Hoccleve's role in recasting Chaucer as a figure of intellectual and moral authority, and situating Hoccleve - and the nascent English literary tradition - firmly in the context of heresy and religious reform. Zusammenfassung This study also situates Hoccleve’s accomplishments in a transnational poetic context – offering French and Italian precedents for Hoccleve’s moralization of Chaucer, while examining the influence of contemporary French poetry on Hoccleve’s work.

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• Authors: Sebastian J. Langdell, Sebastian J. Langdell, Sebastian J. (Department of English Langdell, Sebastian J. (English Department Langdell
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781786941299
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-129-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud; Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies; Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies