Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Critten, Rory G. (1981-)
Titre(s) : Author, scribe, and book in late medieval English literature [Texte imprimé] / Rory G. Critten
Publication : Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII, 226 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Include bibliographical references (pages 192-216) and index. - Bibliogr. p. 192-216, index
Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, John Audelay, and Charles d'Orléans present themselves
as the makers not only of their texts, but also of the books that transmitted their
writing. This new study argues that they elaborated a 'self-publishing pose' with
the aim of regaining their audiences' confidence in the face of the compromised social,
physical, and material conditions they inhabited. Dr. Critten shows that while the
strategies of self-presentation that these authors develop draw on trends in contemporary
literature and book history (such as the proliferation of the 'go, litel bok' motif
and the increasing popularity of the single-author codex), their approach to writing
differs fundamentally from that pursued by their immediate predecessors, Chaucer and
Gower, and by their most prominent peer, Lydgate. Rather, in their unusual insistence
on their co-identity with their manuscripts, they demonstrate a new awareness of the
socially instrumental potential of Middle English writing--Back cover
Sujet(s) : Manuscrits anglais (moyen anglais) -- Histoire
Copistes -- Histoire
Rhétorique médiévale
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781843845058 (Br.). - ISBN 1843845059. - ISBN 9781787444188 (erroné). - ISBN
178744418X (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45678787d
Notice n° :
FRBNF45678787
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Towards a History of the Self-Publishing Pose ; 1. "Yit ful fayn wolde
I haue a messageer / To recommande me": Thomas Hoccleve's Autography Books in Fifteenth-Century
London and Westminister ; 2. "He Red it ouyr...Sche Sum-tym Helpyng": Collaborating
on the Book of Margery Kempe ; 3. "This boke I made with gret dolour": The Pains
of Writing in John the Blind Audelay's Poems and Carols ; 4. "Considering the grete
subtilite and cauteleux disposition of the said Duc of Orlians": The Political Valence
of Charles d'Orleans's English Book of Love.
