Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature
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A32=A C Spearing
A32=Barry A Windeatt
A32=Charlotte Brewer
A32=Christopher Cannon
A32=Corinne Saunders
A32=Derek Pearsall
A32=Professor A. S. G. Edwards
A32=Professor Alastair J. Alastair J. Minnis
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Feminine Beauty
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- ISBN 9781843843542
- Weight: 684g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jul 2013
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer.
Derek Brewer (1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the twentieth century, first through his own publications and teaching, and later as the founder of his own academic publishing firm. His working life of some sixty years, from the late 1940s to the 2000s, saw enormous advances in the study of Chaucer and of Arthurian romance, and of medieval literature more generally. He was in the forefront of such changes, and his understandings ofChaucer and of Malory remain at the core of the modern critical mainstream.
Essays in this collection take their starting point from his ideas and interests, before offering their own fresh thinking in those key areas of medieval studies in which he pioneered innovations which remain central: Chaucer's knight and knightly virtues; class-distinction; narrators and narrative time; lovers and loving in medieval romance; ideals of feminine beauty; love,friendship and masculinities; medieval laughter; symbolic stories, the nature of romance, and the ends of storytelling; the wholeness of Malory's Morte Darthur; modern study of the medieval material book; Chaucer's poetic language and modern dictionaries; and Chaucerian afterlives. This collection builds towards an intellectual profile of a modern medievalist, cumulatively registering how the potential of Derek Brewer's work is being reinterpreted and is renewing itself now and into the future of medieval studies.
Charlotte Brewer is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford; Barry Windeatt is Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Contributors: Elizabeth Archibald, Charlotte Brewer, Mary Carruthers, Christopher Cannon, Helen Cooper, A.S.G. Edwards, Jill Mann, Alastair Minnis, Derek Pearsall, Corinne Saunders, James Simpson, A.C. Spearing, Jacqueline Tasioulas, Robert Yeager, Barry Windeatt.
A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature. MARY CARRUTHERS is Remarque Professor Emeritus of Literature, New York University and Quondam Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. A world-renowned scholar, she has published numerous works on medieval ideas of the mind. R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida.
