| Description |
xxv, 1043 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
New Cambridge history of English literature
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New Cambridge history of English literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 881-990) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. After the Norman conquest. Old English and its afterlife / Seth Lerer -- Anglo-Norman cultures in England, 1066-1460 / Susan Crane -- Early Middle Englis / Thomas Hahn -- National, world, and women's history : writers and readers in post-Conquest England / Lesley Johnson and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne -- Latinitas / Christopher Baswell --Romance in England, 1066-1400 / Rosalind Field -- Pt. 2. Writing in the British Isles. Writing in Wales / Brynley F. Roberts -- Writing in Ireland / Terence Dolan -- Writing in Scotland / R. James Goldstein -- Writing history in England / Andrew Galloway -- London texts and literate practice / Sheila Lindenbaum -- Pt. 3. Institutional productions -- Introduction / David Wallace -- Monastic productions / Christopher Cannon -- The friars and medieval English literature / John V. Fleming --Classroom and confession / Marjorie Curry Woods and Rita Copeland -- Literature and the law / Richard Firth Green -- 'Vox Populi' and the literature of 1381 / David Aers -- Englishing the Bible 1066-1549 / David Lawton -- Pt. 4. After the Black Death. Alliterative poetry / Ralph Hanna -- Piers Plowman / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton -- The Middle English mystics / Nicholas Watson -- Geoffrey Chaucer / Glending Olson -- John Gower / Winthrop Wetherbee -- Middle English lives / Julia Boffey -- Pt. 5. Before the Reformation. Hoccleve, Lydgate, and the Lancastrian Court / Paul Strohm -- Lollardy / Steven Justice -- Romance after 1400 / Helen Cooper -- William Caxton / Seth Lerer -- English drama from Ungodly Ludi to Sacred Play / Lawrence M. Clopper -- The allegorical theatre: moralities, interludes, and Protestant drama / John Watkins Literature and politics in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII / Colin Burrow -- Reformed literature and literature reformed / Brian Cummings --Chronologies. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
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Great Britain. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485.
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| Chronological Term |
1066-1485 |
| Added Author |
Wallace, David, 1954-
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| ISBN |
0521444209 hardback |
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