Lydgate Matters

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Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century, The New Middle Ages

ISBN: 1403976740
ISBN 13: 9781403976741
Herausgeber: L Cooper/A Denny-Brown
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: vii, 223 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.06.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Significant addition to the field: The book’s focus on Lydgate is both timely and critically appealing. There is just at this moment a growing recognition of Lydgate’s crucial position in the history of medieval literature and indeed in English literary history as a whole; that recognition includes the recent publication of Maura Nolan’s monograph on John Lydgate (Cambridge 2005) and another (though very different) volume of essays devoted to him (Notre Dame 2006) that has been edited by the major scholars James Simpson and Larry ScanlonReputable Contributors: It brings together a very distinguished group of people. The volume consists of brand new work, unpublished elsewhere, by major, established scholars in the field of late medieval English literature along with essays by several important new voices. Please see the attached contributor’s bios. To name a few: Paul Strohm, the William Ransford Prof. of Medieval Lit at Columbia U; John Ganim, Prof. of English, UC-Riverside; Claire Sponsler, Prof. of Eng.& Medieval Studies, U. of Iowa; and Maura Nolan, Associate Prof. Eng, UC Berkeley Valuable Approach: The volume engages with contemporary as well as historical aesthetic paradigms and their relevance for the formation and revision of the English literary canon. It is theoretically nuanced and interdisciplinary

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Beschreibung

This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole explores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also in our own.

Autorenporträt

LISA H. COOPER is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. ANDREA DENNY BROWN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, USA.

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