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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: art of allusion
    sub title: illuminators and the making of English literature, 1403-1476
  name:
    name part: Drimmer, Sonja
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the development of English literary culture. The newly enlarged scale of English manuscript production generated a problem, namely, a need for new images. Not only did these images need to accompany narratives that often had no tradition of illustration, they also had to express novel concepts, including ones as foundational as the identity and suitable representation of an English poet. In devising this new corpus, manuscript artists harnessed visual allusion as a method to articulate central questions and provide at times conflicting answers regarding both literary and cultural authority.
  note: Sonja Drimmer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
    geographic: England
  subject:
    topic: Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
    temporal: 15th century
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: Middle English, 1100-1500
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: ND2940 .D74 2019
  classification: 745.6/709420902
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Material texts
  identifier: 9780812250497
  identifier: 0812250494
  identifier: 2018004665
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180226
    record change date: 20190422100048.0
    record identifier: in00004037031