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

by Daniel G. Donoghue (Editor), Sebastian Sobecki (Editor), Nicholas Watson (Editor), Laura Ashe (Contribution by), David Aers (Contribution by)

Overview

New and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805432357
Publisher:	D.S.Brewer
Publication date:	03/05/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	31 MB
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About the Author

DANIEL DONOGHUE is Professor of English at Harvard University. His research explores Old English, Middle English, the History of English, Medievalism and Cognitive Literary Studies.
SEBASTIAN SOBECKI is Professor of Later Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto.
His research extends to a wide area of late medieval literary culture, especially law, travel, politics, authorship, manuscripts, and palaeography.
NICHOLAS WATSON teaches English at Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval English and North European literature, intellectual history, visionary writing and the role of the written vernacular.
LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.
James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Contributors and Editors
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Simpson: An Interim Report - Daniel Donoghue, Sebastian Sobecki, and Nicholas Watson
Part I: The Hermeneutics of Recognition
1. The Shock of the Old: Recognition in the Humanities; The 2022 Morton W. Bloomfield Memorial Lecture - James Simpson
2. "Stuffed with Divine Words": Undigested Texts in Early Medieval England - Erica Weaver
3. The "Physician's Tale" and Chaucer's Art of Prosopopoeia - Julie Orlemanski
4. "Troilus can afford to fall in love ... with whomsoever he will": Free Will and Recognition in Troilus and Criseyde - Laura Ashe
Part II: Genre and Figure
5. Only Rarely Obscure and Not a Genre: Medieval Allegorical Narrative - Nicolette Zeeman
6. "Thynke nat the contrary": Field Notes in the Ecology of Medieval Romance - Nicholas Perkins
7. Filling in the Lines: Text, Image, and Late Medieval Literary Forms - Jessica Brantley
8. Catching at Words: The Literal, the Metaphorical, and the Obvious - Chris Barrett
Part III: Culture and Institutions
9. Petition, Justice, and Peace in Piers Plowman - Yun Ni
10. In Place of the Past: Saint Erkenwald's Versions of Conversion - Aparna Chaudhuri
11. Proverb and Satirical Time: The Digby Poems and Their Fifteenth Century - Spencer Strub
12. Common Style and the Bourgeois Ethos in John Lydgate's Dietary - Taylor Cowdery
Part IV: Reformations
13. Rewriting Robert the Devil: Thomas Lodge and Medieval Romance - Cathy Shrank
14. Iconoclasm and the Epigraphic Image - Jessica Berenbeim
15. The Letter Kills but the Spirit Gives Life (2 Corinthians 3:6): Or, What Happened to Enemy Love? - David Aers
16. James Simpson's Freedoms: An Appreciation - Jason Crawford
James Simpson's Publications from 1984 to 2023
Bibliography
A Note on the Bloomfield Conferences
General Index