Emily Steiner, Steiner Emily

Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521110532
• ISBN-10: 052111053X
• Artikelnr.: 26010664

Autorenporträt

Emily Steiner is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the editor (with Candace Barrington) of The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Late Medieval England (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Documentary Poetics: 1. Bracton, Deguileville and the defense of allegory
2. Lyric, genre, and the material text
Part II. Langland's Documents: 3. Piers Plowman and the archive of salvation
4. Writing public: documents in the Piers Plowman tradition
Part III. Identity, Heterodoxy, Documents: 5. Lollard community and the Charters of Christ
6. Lollard rhetoric and the written record: Margery Baxter and William Thorpe
Epilogue: 'My lordys lettyr & the seel of Cawntyrbery'.