A Companion to British Literature, Volume 1

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Cover 2
Series page 5
Title page 6
Copyright page 7
Contents: Volume I: Medieval Literature 700–1450 8
Full Table of Contents 12
Editors 22
Notes on Contributors to Volume I 23
General Introduction 27
Introduction to Medieval Literature 34
Chronology 43–1476 51
1: The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 68
- Orality and Literacy 70
- Oral Composition 72
- Oral Performance 74

Cover 2
Series page 5
Title page 6
Copyright page 7
Contents: Volume I: Medieval Literature 700–1450 8
Full Table of Contents 12
Editors 22
Notes on Contributors to Volume I 23
General Introduction 27
Introduction to Medieval Literature 34
Chronology 43–1476 51
1: The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 68
- Orality and Literacy 70
- Oral Composition 72
- Oral Performance 74
- Oral Transmission 76
- Reception 77
- References 80
2: Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 83
- References 95
3: Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 97
- The Lyric Mode in Old English Poetry 98
- Middle English Lyric: Mirrors of Mercury 105
- Conclusion 113
- References 113
4: Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 115
- The Vercelli Homilies and the Blickling Homilies 116
- Ælfric 117
- Wulfstan 127
- Coda 129
- Beyond 129
5: The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints’ Legends in John of Tynemouth’s Sanctilogium 132
- References 146
6: Racial Imagination and the Theater of War: Captivity and Execution in Richard, Coer de Lion 148
- Situating Prisoners of War within Medieval Texts, Customs of Warfare, and Race 151
- The Place of Prisoners in Richard, Coer de Lion 156
- Acknowledgment 161
- References 161
7: The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After 1066 164
- Rupture and Repression 164
- Invasion as Repetition 169
- Emerging Landscapes 171
- Discovering Boundaries 173
- Romancing Conquest 175
- Inventing Grievances 177
8: Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul 181
- Introduction: Theoretical Sounds of Silence 181
- Medieval Anchoritism: Issues at Stake 183
- Writing of/for the Male Anchorite 185
- Writing for the Female Anchorite 188
- The Woman Writer and the Anchoritic Text 190
- A Female Path to Redemption: Men Following “Her” Lead 194
9: Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation: The Narrative Pragmatics of an Ideal 197
- Courtly Love and the Problem of Origins 198
- Two Useful Theories 200
- The Romance of the Rose: Diversion of Desire 204
- The Secret of Courtly Love in Middle English Texts 206
- Troilus and Criseyde: Excavating the Amorous Archeology of Troy 207
- Afterlives: “Here’s Looking at You, Kid” 211
10: Writing Revolution 213
- Thirteenth-Century Writing 215
- Fourteenth-Century Politics3 218
- Two Revolutionary Canterbury Tales 220
- “Hevenysh Revolucioun”: The Complaint of Mars 224
11: The Romance Genre 228
- Order and Society: England and the East 232
- Chivalry, Love, and Marriage 234
- Penitence and Virtue 236
- Otherworlds 238
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 240
12: Interior Visions: Piers Plowman and the Dream Vision Genre 247
- Introduction 247
- Piers and Social Justice 251
  - Lady Meed 254
  - Glutton 255
  - Christ as Generous Landlord 256
  - The Samaritan 257
- The Dream Vision Genre 259
- The Dreamscapes in Piers 260
- Dreams in Dreams 263
- Dreams of an Ending 265
13: British Chaucer 269
- The British Past in “The Man of Law’s Tale” 270
- International Chaucer 273
- Literary Britishness and Its Public 275
- References 280
14: Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England 282
- Heresy and English Literature 283
- Pre-Wycliffite Discourses of Heresy and Apostasy 285
- Anticlericalism and the New Discourses of Apostasy in the Age of Wyclif 289
- Non-Orthodoxy and Orthodoxy in Dialogue 293
- References 296
15: Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture 299
- References 308
16: Sources, Analogues, Creativity 310
- The Seeds of Ideas 310
- Economics, Theory, and Aesthetics 311
- Producing Literature 315
- The Originality of Imitation 319
- References 321
17: Performing Communities: The Variety of Dramatic Practices in Medieval England 323
- Introduction 323
- Liturgical and Church Drama 324
- Civic Drama (York, Chester, Coventry) 326
- The Problem of Wakefield and the Towneley Plays 330
- The Variety of East Anglian Drama 331
- London Before the Theaters 333
- Everyman and “Moral Plays” 335
- References 337
18: Old English and Anglo-Latin: The Odd Couple 340
- References 355
19: Before the Makars: Older Scots Literature Under the Early Stewart Kings 360
- References 373
- Acknowledgment 373
20: Originating Britain: Welsh Literature and the Arthurian Tradition 375
- The Son of Prophecy 379
- Arthur as King of Britain in Early Welsh Literature 381
- Conclusion 387
- References 388
21: Writing from the “Other Shore” and the Beginnings of Vernacular Literature in Ireland 390
- References 402
22: The Circulation and Compilation of Devotional Books: Assessing the Material Evidence of Women’s Reading 404
- The Circulation and Compilation of MS Arundel 327 405
- Reading the Material Evidence of MS Arundel 327 414
23: Collectors and Collections: Libraries and Their Social and Private Functions 422
- Manuscripts and Collections 422
- Private Ownership 425
- The Size and Content of Collections 427
- Lending and Borrowing 431
- References 434
24: In Praise of Power: Prince and Poet in Fifteenth-Century Court Poetry 436
- Praising Power 436
- John Lydgate 439
- Thomas Hoccleve 443
- References 449
25: Word and Image 451
- In principio erat verbum: In the Beginning Was the Word 452
- Networks of Literacy 458
- Word and Object 461
- Image as Adornment and Adoration 465
- References 468
26: New Technologies: From Manuscript to Print 470
- In the City: An Alphabet of Scribes 474
- In the Print Shop: William Caxton 476
- Authors, Scribes, Printers, and Scholars: The Case of Malory’s Morte Darthur 480
- References 482
Selected References and Further Reading 485
Index to Volume I 502

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