Trading tongues
Subtitle: merchants, multilingualism, and medieval literature
By: Jonathan Hsy
Series: Interventions : new studies in medieval culture; Interventions : new studies in medieval culture
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780814212295
Subjects: English literature; Languages in contact; Multilingualism and literature; Multilingualism; History and criticism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : London's languages and translingual writing; title: Chaucer's polyglot dwellings : home and the customs house; title: Overseas travel and languages in motion; title: Translingual identities in John Gower and William Caxton; title: Travel and language contact in The book of Margery Kempe; title: Merchant compilations and translingual creation; title: Coda : contact literatures, medieval/postcolonial.