| Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830 1860 Contributor(s): Hanna, Ralph (Author), Ralph, Hanna (Author), Lee, Maurice S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521100178 ISBN-13: 9780521100175 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: Ralph Hanna charts the generic and linguistic features particular to London writing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 820.994 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 388 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: English literary culture in the fourteenth century was vibrant and expanding. Its focus, however, was still strongly local, not national. This study examines in detail the literary production from the capital before, during, and after the time of the Black Death. In this major contribution to the field, Ralph Hanna charts the development and the generic and linguistic features particular to London writing. He uncovers the interactions between texts and authors across a range of languages and genres: not just Middle English, but Anglo-Norman and Latin; not just romance, but also law, history, and biblical commentary. Hanna emphasises the uneasy boundaries legal thought and discourse shared with historical and 'romance' thinking, and shows how the technique of romance, Latin writing associated with administrative culture, and biblical interests underwrote the great pre-Chaucerian London poem, William Langland's Piers Plowman. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hanna, Ralph: - Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography at the University of Oxford. |
