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Elaine Treharne (Ed.) - The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English - 9780198798088 - V9780198798088
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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

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Description for The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English Paperback. Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Medieval Literature today. It discusses texts such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and authors from Aelfric to Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet. Editor(s): Treharne, Head of the English Department and Professor of Medieval Literature Elaine (Florida State University); Walker, Greg (University of Leicester). Num Pages: 792 pages, 7 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
790
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198798088
SKU
V9780198798088
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Ref
99-1

About Elaine Treharne (Ed.)
Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that he was Professor of early-modern literature and culture at the University of Leicester. He has written extensively on the drama, poetry, and prose, and the political and religious history of the late medieval period and the sixteenth century in England and Scotland. ... Read more

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