The Making of Chaucer's English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Chaucer's English write by Christopher Cannon. This book was released on 1998. The Making of Chaucer's English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A substantial reappraisal of the place of Chaucer's English in the history of English language and literature.
The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910
The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910 write by David Matthews. This book was released on 1999. The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before the 1760s -- with the major exception of Chaucer -- nearly all of Middle English literature lay undiscovered and ignored. Because established scholars regarded later medieval literature as primitive and barbaric, the study of this rich literary heritage was relegated to antiquarians and dilettantes. In The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910, David Matthews chronicles the gradual rediscovery of this literature and the formation of Middle English as a scholarly pursuit. Matthews details how the careers, class positions, and ambitions of only a few men gave shape and direction to the discipline. Mostly from the lower middle class, they worked in the church or in law and hoped to exploit medieval literature for financial success and social advancement. Where Middle English was concerned, Matthews notes, these scholars were self-taught, and their amateurism came at the price of inaccurately edited and often deliberately "improved" texts intended for a general public that sought appealing, rather than authentic, reading material. This study emphasizes the material history of the discipline, examining individual books and analyzing introductions, notes, glossaries, promotional materials, lists of subscribers, and owners' annotations to assess the changing methodological approaches of the scholars and the shifts in readership. Matthews explores the influence of aristocratic patronage and the societies formed to further the editing and publication of texts. And he examines the ideological uses of Middle English and the often contentious debates between these scholars and organizations about the definition of Englishness itself. A thorough work of scholarship, The Making of MiddleEnglish presents for the first time a detailed account of the formative phase of Middle English studies and provides new perspectives on the emergence of medieval studies, canon formation, the politics of editing, and the history of the book.
The Making of Chaucer's English
The Making of Chaucer's English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Chaucer's English write by Christopher Cannon. This book was released on 1993. The Making of Chaucer's English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language of the Chaucer Tradition write by Simon Horobin. This book was released on 2003. The Language of the Chaucer Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the language of Chaucerian manuscripts, printed editions and Chaucer's 15th century followers. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 The manuscript copies of Chaucer's works preserve valuable information concerning Chaucer's linguistic practices and the ways in which scribes responded to these. This book draws on recent developments in Middle English dialectology, textual criticism and the application of computers to manuscript studies to assess the evidence Chaucerian manuscripts provide for reconstructing Chaucer's own language and his linguistic environment. This book considershow scribes, editors and Chaucerian poets transmitted and updated Chaucer's language and the implications of this for our understanding of Chaucerian book production and reception, and the processes of linguistic change in the fifteenth century. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 SIMON HOROBIN lectures on English language at the University of Glasgow.
Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 1
Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 1 write by P. M. Kean. This book was released on 2019-09-23. Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achievement and his place in history - and demonstrates that in both these senses Chaucer is a maker of English poetry. The author assesses the extent of Chaucer’s debt to the English tradition. She considers the development of his ‘urbane’ manner as a new poetic technique and, with reference to such poems as the Parlement of Foules and the House of Fame, discusses new themes in the Love Vision. She concludes with a detailed study of Chaucer’s great debate on love Troilus and Criseyde.
