New Medieval Literatures
Volume I
Edited by Wendy Scase, Rita Copeland, and David Lawton
Price: £76.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818389-1
Publication date: 29 January 1998
288 pages, 5 halftones, 216x138 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'new series ... this debut is one distinguished by quality and self-confidence. ... this new series ... has begun splendidly.' - Alan J. Fletcher, MLR, 96.I, 2001
- 'a bold new annual ... These eclectic essays ... display the beadth and depth of contemporary medieval critical studies.' - Michael Calabrese, The Medieval Review
- 'an invigorating new annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them ... The essays in this volume certainly project the vitality of genuine exploration. The first volume of New Medieval Literatures is outstanding in its own right, the most sustained medieval collection of the 1990s I would
venture to say. This new annual is professionally launched and clearly has a distinguished future.' - Alcuin Blamires, University of Wales, Lampeter, The Review of English Studies, vol 50 , no 199, 1999
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| Description | | - Caters for the recent explosion of interest in new medievalism and applies the methods of post-colonial studies to the study of medieval literature
- Incorporates studies in such subjects as medieval multiculturalism, gender issues in hagiography, and sociological issues in romance
| New Medieval Literatures
is a new annual of work on medieval textural cultures. It will provide a regular venue for innovative essays that deploy diverse methodologies - theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist - with an awareness of postmodernism. As well as featuring challenging new articles, each issue will include an analytical survey by a leading international medievalist
of recent work in an emerging or dominant critical discourse. The editors, active in three continents and supported by a distinguished multidisciplinary Advisory Board, aim to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now.
The first volume, New Medieval Literatures 1
, presents essays that destabilize the medieval text as a critical category. Interrogating
period and literary boundaries, the contributors invoke bordercountry narratives, performance texts, self-consuming writing, and post-medievalist readers as they explore some of the most crucial topics in contemporary literary studies. Subjects discussed include vernacularity and political agency, pedagogic discourses, the textualization of authority, and the literary construction of cultural and
social space. The volume as a whole demonstrates the central contribution of medievalists to 'the production of the present'.
Future issues will include essays by Susan Crane, Simon Gaunt, Kantik Ghosh, Steven Kruger, Anne Middleton, Larry Scanlon, Helen Solterer,Robert Stein Jane Taylor and survey articles by Louise Fradenburg and Sarah Kay. Submissions for Volume 3 and subsequent
issues may be sent to any of the editors.
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Readership: Students and scholars of medieval literature, history, and culture.
| Contents |
Medieval Literatures 1997: Breaking the Seal
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Wendy Scase
Textual Territory: the Regional and Geographical Dynamic of Medieval Icelandic Literary Production
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Margaret Clunies Ross
Counterfeiters, Lollards, and Lancastrain Unease
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Paul Strohm
Langlandian Reading Circles and the Civil Service in London and Dublin, 1380-1427
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Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Steven Justice
Conceptions of the Word: the Mother Tongue and the Incarnation of God
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Nicholas Watson
Childhood, Pedagogy, and the Literal Sense: from Late Antiquity to the Lollard Heretical Classroom
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Rita Copeland
Pedagogy, Violence, and the Subject of Music: Chaucer's Prioress's Tale and the Ideologies of `Song'
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Bruce Holsinger
`When a Body meets a Body': Fergus and Mary in the York Cycle
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Ruth Evans
Ageism: Leland, Bale, and the Laborious Start of English Literary History, 1350-1550
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James Simpson
Literary History and Cultural Study
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David Lawton
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Wendy Scase, Lecturer, Department of English; Director, Center for Medieval Studies, University of Hull,
Rita Copeland, Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota, and
David Lawton, Professor of English Literature, University of East Anglia
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