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Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson

Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: A Book for James Simpson

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This book celebrates James Simpson's influential work in English literary studies, focusing on medieval and early modern culture. It includes essays on various texts and topics, from Langland's Piers Plowman to Chaucer's Physician's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde. The volume explores revisionist studies of allegory and romance, as well as neglected physical features of early books, and discusses iconoclasm and enemy love.

Format: Hardback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 05 March 2024
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd


New and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity. This book honours James Simpson, an enormously influential figure in English literary studies. Known for championing once-neglected writers such as Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, Simpson has also pioneered the field of Trans-Reformation studies, dismantling the barrier between the medieval and early modern periods. He has written powerfully about the history of freedoms, the relationship between literary and intellectual history, and about the category of the literary itself in all its urgency. Inspired by Simpson's interventions, the essays collected here deal with texts and topics from the eighth to the seventeenth centuries. Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Physician's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde rub shoulders with Old English riddles, Saint Erkenwald, The Digby Lyrics, Lydgate's Dietary, and Lodge's Robert the Devil. Revisionist studies of two much-debated genres - allegory and romance - join forces with chapters on neglected physical features of early books, line-fillers and catchwords, as well as studies of iconoclasm and the histories of enemy love. The volume begins with a piece by the honorand himself, on recognition in literary texts.

Weight: 1g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781843847113

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