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Middle English Literature
Christopher Cannon
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Description for Middle English Literature
Hardback. This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Series: Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 568.
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function.
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function.
This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure ... Read more
Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Series
Cultural History of Literature
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745624419
SKU
V9780745624419
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About Christopher Cannon
Christopher Cannon, Fellow of Girton College and University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Reviews for Middle English Literature
"Christopher Cannon's latest book makes one fall in love with Middle English literature all over again. The book ... - I am convinced - will endure as one of the most cogent, sophisticated, and delightful introductions to English medieval literary history." English "This is a scintillating cultural history of Middle English literature, punctuated throughout ... Read more