Titre
Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature
Type
livre
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Auteur(s)
Critten, Rory G.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
Maison d’édition
D. S. Brewer
Lieu d’édition
Cambridge
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2018
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, John Audelay, and Charles d'Orléans present themselves as the makers not only of their texts, but also of the books that transmitted their writing. This study argues that they elaborated a "self-publishing pose" with the aim of regaining their audiences' confidence in the face of the compromised social, physical, and material conditions they inhabited. I show that while the strategies of self-presentation that these authors develop draw on trends in contemporary literature and book history (such as the proliferation of the "go, litel bok" motif and the increasing popularity of the single-author codex), their approach to writing differs fundamentally from that pursued by their immediate predecessors, Chaucer and Gower, and by their most prominent peer, Lydgate. Rather, in their unusual insistence on their co-identity with their manuscripts, they demonstrate a new awareness of the socially instrumental potential of English writing.
PID Serval
serval:BIB_BCA99DB162CC
Date de création
2020-11-17T07:41:42.333Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T23:46:12Z