THE LONG FIFTEENTH CENTURY by Helen Cooper (Editor), Sally Mapstone (Editor) ( 9780198183655 )

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THE LONG FIFTEENTH CENTURY
ESSAYS FOR DOUGLAS GRAY

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Helen Cooper (Editor), Sally Mapstone (Editor)

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 May, 1997

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374

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The literature of the `long fifteenth century' (from the death of Chaucer to the Reformation) has been under-read, undervalued, and under-studied. The Long Fifteenth Century, intended as a companion volume to Douglas Gray's groundbreaking Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose, stresses the importance, interest, and richness of the literature of the period. It provides a comprehensvie survey of fifteenth-century literature in print, from themorality play to the ballad, verse forms to prose romances, and includes essays on Chaucer, Lydgate, Skelton, and Hoccleve, along with the Middle French poets and Scottish writings of the period. Contributors include John Burrow, Peter Dronke, Malcolm Godden, Vincent Gillespie, and Anne Hudson.

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The Long Fifteenth Century is intended as a companion volume to Douglas Gray's ground-breaking Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose and incorporates a bibliography of his published writings. Gray's anthology revolutionized critical appreciation of English and Scottish literature of the 'long fifteenth century' from the death of Chaucer to the Reformation, but the literature of the period as a whole remains much under-read, undervalued, and under-studied. The contributors to this volume, all leading scholars in the field, bring to the fore the power of underrated writers, restore to the period writings often attributed to other centuries, open up new possibilities in neglected genres, offer radical rereadings of some more familiar works, and demonstrate how closely the literature of the period is bound up with political and social conditions. Written in honour of Douglas Gray, to mark his long and distinguished tenure of the J.R.R. Tolkein Professorship of English Literature and Language at Oxford university, the 15 essays in this volume portray the long fifteenth century as a major period of literature in its own right.They provide a comprehensive survey of fifteenth-century literature in print, from the morality play to the ballad, verse forms to prose romances, including Chaucer, Lydgate, Skelton, and Hoccleve, along with essays on the Middle French Poets and Scottish writings of the period.

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