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The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides. Extending beyond the traditional scholarly discussions of insularity in relation to Middle English literature and 'isolationism', this volume:
- Oversees a variety of genres and topics, including cultural identity, insular borders, linguistic interactions, literary gateways, Middle English texts and traditions, and modern interpretations such as race, gender studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonialism.
- Draws on the combined extensive experience of teaching and research in medieval English and comparative literature within and outside of anglophone higher education and looks to the future of this fast-paced area of literary culture.
- Contains an indispensable section on theoretical approaches to the study of literary texts.
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Companion provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to medieval literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on English literature.
List of contents
Medieval English Literature: A trans-European Literary History
Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir
PART I:THE FORMS OF LITERATURE: INTRODUCTION
Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir
- Orality, Vocality, and Textuality
Karl Reichl
- Vernacularity
Wendy Scase
- Books and Materiality
J. R. Mattison and Alexandra Gillespie
- Form and Genre
Julie Orlemanski
PART II: INSULAR BORDERS AND LINGUISTIC INTERACTIONS: INTRODUCTION
Raluca Radulescu
- Middle Welsh
Helen Fulton
- Irish
Aisling Byrne
- Scottish
Caitlin Flynn
- Multilingualism
Ad Putter
PART III: LITERARY GATEWAYS: INTRODUCTION
Sif Rikhardsdottir
- 'Travel' of the Mind via Study: translatio studii et imperii
Elizaveta Strakhov
- 'Travel' of the Soul via Religiosity: Imaginary and Actual Pilgrimages
Ryan Perry
- French-Speaking Courts and Literary Dominance in Europe
Keith Busby
- The Norman Rule
Laura Ashe
- The Venetian Gateway: Commerce, Plague, Oriental Motifs
Sif Rikhardsdottir
- Origination and Mediation: Sicily
David Wallace
- Islamic Pathways and Imaginary Borders
Shirin A. Khanmohamadi
- Mercantile Networks
Craig E. Bertolet
- Maps and the Medieval World at Large
Matthew Boyd Goldie
PART IV: MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS AND TRADITIONS: INTRODUCTION
Raluca Radulescu
- The Endurance of Early English Literary Traditions
Orietta Da Rold
- Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Chronicle Tradition
Jaclyn Rajsic
- Marie de France and Middle English Romance
Cory James Rushton
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Tradition
Lawrence Warner
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Marion Turner
- John Gower
Siân Echard
- William Langland: European Poet?
Marco Nievergelt
- Hoccleve and Lydgate: Transnationalism and Tradition
Sebastian J. Langdell
- Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Female Spirituality
Laura Kalas
- The Middle English Lyrics in Their European Context
Christiania Whitehead
- Medieval English Drama and Performance
Charlotte Steenbrugge
- Thomas Malory
Raluca Radulescu
- Hagiography
Karen A. Winstead
PART V: THE MODERN MIDDLE AGES: INTRODUCTION
Sif Rikhardsdottir
- Emotion
Andrew Lynch
- Race
Wan-Chuan Kao
- Gender/Queer
Laura Saetveit Miles and Samantha Katz Seal
- Postcolonialism
Patricia Clare Ingham and Abby Ang
- Ecocriticism
Michael J. Warren
- Human/Animal
Karl Steel
- Medievalism
David Matthews
