Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England
Helen Barr
Price: £54.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-811242-6
Publication date: 6 December 2001
238 pages, 234x156 mm
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| Reviews |
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This book should be of interest both to theorists hoping to combine materialist and linguistic approaches, and to scholars seeking insights into such varied texts as Pearl, Wynnere and Wastoure,
Geoffrey Chaucer's Manciple's Tale, Nun's Priest's Tale,
and Legend of Good Women,
John Gower's Chronica Tripertita, Richard the Redeless,
the literature of Wycliffism, Mum and the
Sothsegger
, or The Boke of Cupide
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' - Sixteenth Century Journal
- '... Barr demonstrates that she can combine a sophisticated theory of discourse with detailed close readings, and that the literature of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries preserves a complex but navigable mixture of discourses.' - Sixteenth Century Journal
- '[Barr's] theoretical engagement shows a rigor that will satisfy both fellow theorists and some theory-skeptical medievalists; it will probably disappoint historians, but this book should be of great interest to literary scholars of the late Middle Ages in England, and those interested in Barr's linguistic materialism.' - Sixteenth Century Journal
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There are many fine insights in this volume, from the analysis of the literary and sociological discontinuities in Wynner and Wastoure
to the discussion of the critical treatment of the clergy in Lollard texts (in line with that of the peasants elsewhere), and much more. In sum, the author is to be congratulated for raising so many issues in such a relatively short space.
' - Anglia
- 'Barr's command of primary sources is impeccable, and the range of critical references is impressive and very up to date.' - Medium Ævum
- 'By redefining Middle English literary writings as social discourses, Helen Barr connects a variety of late-medieval texts within a social environment newly energized by working-class ambitions and Wycliffite challenges.' - Medium Ævum
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| Description | | - An important cross-disciplinary examination of literary texts for what they reveal of their historic time and social function.
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Discusses both canonical and less familiar authors and texts, from Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl
to Clanvowe and Wycliffite prose tracts.
- Offers challenging new interpretations of both literary history and late medieval culture.
| | Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England
bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries are grounded in close textual study which reveals the social positioning of these works and the kinds of ideological
work they can be seen to perform. Distinctive new readings of texts emerge which challenge received interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture. Canonical authors and texts such as Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl
are discussed alongside the less familiar: Clanvowe, anonymous alliterative verse, and Wycliffite prose tracts.
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Readership: Scholars of late medieval literature and social and political history.
| Contents |
Abbreviations
Introduction: Socioliterary practice
1.
Constructing social realities: Wynnere and Wastoure
, Hoccleve and Chaucer
2.
Pearl
- or the jeweller's tale
3.
Unfixing the signs of kingship: Gower's Cronica Tripertita
and Richard the Redeless
4.
The regal image of Richard II and the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women
5.
'From pig to man and man to pig': the 1381 uprisings in Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale
6.
'Blessed are the horny hands of toil': Wycliffite representations of the third estate
7.
Coded birds and bees: unscrambling Mum and the Sothsegger
and The Boke of Cupide
Afterword: 'Adieu Sir Churl: Lydgate's The Churl and the Bird
Works Cited
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Helen Barr, Fellow and Tutor in English, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
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