Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature

The works of four major fifteenth-century writers re-examined, showing their innovative reconceptualization of Middle English authorship and the manuscript book.

List of contents

INTRODUCTION: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE SELF-PUBLISHING POSE
"YIT FUL FAYN WOLDE I HAUE A MESSAGEER TO RECOMMANDE ME": Thomas Hoccleve's Autograph Books in Fifteenth-Century London and Westminster
"HE RED IT OUYR...SCHE SUM-TYM HELPYNG":Collaborating on the Book of Margery Kempe
"THIS BOKE I MADE WITH GRET DOLOUR": The Pains of Writing in John the Blind Audelay's Poems and Carols
"CONSIDERING THE GRETE SUBTILITE AND CAUTELEUX DISPOSITION OF THE SAID DUC OF ORLIANS": The Political Valence of Charles d'Orléans's English Book of Love
Afterword
Bibliography

About the author

Rory G. Critten

Product details

• Authors: Rory G Critten, Rory G. Critten
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781843845058
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-505-8
• No. of pages: 238
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 426 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies