Humanism, Reading, and English Literature 1430-1530.
Humanism is usually thought to come to England in the early sixteenth century. In this book, however, Daniel Wakelin uncovers the almost unknown influences of humanism on English literature in the preceding hundred years. He considers the humanist influences on the reception of some of Chaucer'...
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2007.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations and References; 1. Introduction: humanism as reading; Humanism in English literature during the fifteenth century; Other humanisms; Chaucer and Walton from medieval to Renaissance; The freedom of Chaucer's readers; 2. Duke Humfrey and other imaginary readers; Imagining Duke Humfrey; The princely reader in The Fall of Princes; The real reading of The Fall of Princes; Writing for the humanist in On Husbondrie; Imagining Duke Humfrey in On Husbondrie; The rewriting of Duke Humfrey's books; 3. Allusion, translation, and mistranslation; The muses of Osbern Bokenham.
- An exemplum for the Duke of YorkAlluding to Stilicho; The translation of power in Knyghthode and Bataile; Polemical and civil translation in Knyghthode and Bataile; 4. William Worcester and the commonweal of readers; A community of readers; Political reading: Cicero, John of Wales, and Chartier; The limits of exemplary reading; Sources of the commonweal in The Boke of Noblesse; The commonweal of readers and common knowledge; 5. Print and the reproduction of humanist readers; Reproducing humanism in print; Reproducible English in Anwykyll's Vulgaria; Cicero between grammar and philosophy.
- Reproducing the commonweal of readers in Caxton's prologuesCaxton's Cicero and its misreaders; 6. Eloquence, reason, and debate; Eloquent debate in the fifteenth century; Debating Buonaccorso's Declamatio; Reasons for rhetoric in Medwall's Fulgens and Lucres; The idea of reason in Medwall's Nature; The received ideas in Morton's household; 7. Some Tudor readers and their freedom; Prescribing humanism in the 1510s; Lupset and Elyot on reading and judgement; Elyot's unpredictable readers; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y.