Medieval Into Renaissance - Essays for Helen Cooper

Essays on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries between the medieval and early modern period.

List of contents

Introduction - Andrew King and Matthew Woodcock
Unknowe, unkow, Vncovthe, uncouth: From Chaucer and Gower to Spenser and Milton - Alexandra Gillespie
Armour that doesn't work: An Anti-meme in Medieval and Renaissance Romance - Robert Maslen
'Of his ffader spak he no thing': Family Resemblance and Anxiety of Influence in Fifteenth-Century Prose Romance - Megan G. Leitch
Writing Westwards: Medieval English Romances and their Early Modern Irish Audiences - Aisling Byrne
Penitential Romance after the Reformation - James Wade
The English Laureate in Time: John Skelton's Garland of Laurel - Mary C. Flannery
Thomas Churchyard and the Medieval Complaint Tradition - Matthew Woodcock
Placing Arcadia - Nandini Das
Fathers, Sons and Surrogates: Fatherly Advice in Hamlet - Jason Powell
'To visit the sick court': Misogyny as Disease in Swetnam the Woman-Hater' - Joyce Boro
The Monument of Uncertainty: Sovereign and Literary Authority in Samuel Sheppard's The Faerie King - Andrew King
Mopsa's Arcadia: Choice Flowers Gathered out of Sir Philip Sidney's Rare Garden into Eighteenth-Century Chapbooks - Helen Vincent
Bibliography
Index
A Bibliography of Helen Cooper's Published Works

About the author

Andrew King, Matthew Woodcock

Product details

• Authors: Andrew King
• Assisted by: Andrew King (Editor), Matthew Woodcock (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2016
• EAN: 9781843844327
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-432-7
• No. of pages: 295
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese