Acts of recognition
Subtitle: essays on medieval culture
By: Lee Patterson.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780268038373
Subjects: English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500; Historical criticism (Literature); England -- Civilization -- 1066-1485
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical criticism and the development of Chaucer studies; title: The disenchanted classroom; title: Court poetry and the invention of literature: the example of Sir John Clanvowe; title: "What is me?": Hoccleve and the trials of the urban self; title: Beinecke MS 493 and the survival of Hoccleve's Series; title: Making identities in fifteenth-century England: Henry V and John Lydgate; title: The heroic laconic style: reticence and meaning from Beowulf to the Edwardians; title: Writing amorous wrongs: Chaucer and the order of complaint; title: Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde; title: "Rapt with pleasaunce": the gaze from Virgil to Milton; title: Brother Fire and St. Francis's drawers: human nature and the natural world.