The myth of Piers Plowman : constructing a medieval literary archive /
"Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as fact...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
89. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 220 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107784543 1107784549 9781107338821 1107338824 9781107780101 1107780101 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781107338821 |