Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation
Laura Ashe
€ 86.22
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation
Hardback. The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. This volume explores the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350. Series: Oxford English Literary History. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This book describes and seeks to explain the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350. Change can ... Read more
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these thirteen groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This book describes and seeks to explain the vast cultural, literary, social, and political transformations which characterized the period 1000-1350. Change can ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Oxford English Literary History
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
492
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199575381
SKU
V9780199575381
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-11
About Laura Ashe
Laura Ashe is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College. She works on medieval English literary, cultural, and political history, with particular specialisms in England's multilingual literatures, chivalry and crusading, kingship, romance and historiography, sanctity and hagiography, devotional writings and thought, love, subjectivity, and the early literature of interiority. Educated at Cambridge ... Read more
Reviews for The Oxford English Literary History: Volume I: 1000-1350: Conquest and Transformation
Plenty of textual examples, summary and background information is offered to familiarize readers with this strange and distant set of fictions and the details on how and why they were produced, and how the more impactful of these texts altered culture. The scholarly narrative is very polished and delivers the information readers need to comprehend the intricacies of this subject. ... Read more