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New directions in medieval manuscript studies and reading practices : essays in honor of Derek Pearsall /

"This volume gathers the contributions of senior and junior scholars-all indebted to the pathbreaking work of Derek Pearsall-to showcase new research prompted by his rich and ongoing legacy as a literary critic, editor, and seminal founder of Middle English manuscript studies. The contributors...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pearsall, Derek (honouree.), Baechle, Sarah (Editor ), Thompson, John J., 1955-, Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • A Brief Biographical Sketch of Derek Pearsall
  • Part I: Celebrating Pearsallian Reading Practices
  • Chapter 1: Narrative and Freedom in Troilus and Criseyde
  • Chapter 2: How Good Is the Outspoken South English Legendary Poet?
  • Chapter 3: Derek Pearsall, Secret Shakespearean
  • Part II: England and International
  • Chapter 4: The Tongues of the Nightingale
  • Chapter 5: Wings, Wingfields, and Wynnere and Wastoure
  • Chapter 6: The Author of the Italian Meditations on the Life of Christ
  • Chapter 7: Handling The Book of Margery KempePart III: The Making of a Field
  • Chapter 8: Assessing Manuscript Context
  • Chapter 9: Books with Marginalia from St. Mark's Hospital, Bristol
  • Chapter 10: John Colyns, Mercer and Bookseller of London, and Cuthbert Tunstall's Second Monition of 1526
  • Chapter 11: Selling Lydgate Manuscripts in the Twentieth Century
  • Part IV: Newer Directions in Manuscript Studies I
  • Chapter 12: "And fer ouer þe French flod"
  • Chapter 13: Langlandian Economics in James Yonge's Gouernaunce
  • Chapter 14: Manuscript Creation in Dublin
  • Part V: Newer Directions in Manuscript Studies IIChapter 15: The Romance of History
  • Chapter 16: Langland in the Early Modern Household
  • Chapter 17: Playing as Literate Practice
  • Part VI: Chaucerian and Post-Chaucerian Reading Practices
  • Chapter 18: Quoting Chaucer
  • Chapter 19: Chaucer, the Continent, and the Characteristics of Commentary
  • Chapter 20: Hoccleve in Canterbury
  • Chapter 21: The Legacy of John Shirley
  • Part VII: What a Poet Is "Entitled to Be Remembered By"
  • Chapter 22: Was the C-Reviser's Manuscript Really So Corrupt?
  • Chapter 23: Emending OneselfChapter 24: Confronting the Scribe-Poet Binary
  • Contributors
  • Index of Manuscripts and Incunabula
  • General Index