Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Note on Quotations xi
7. Abbreviations xii
8. Introduction: Hoccleve Then and Now 1
9. Part I Form in Context
10. 1 Historicising Hoccleve’s Metre 25
11. 2 Speech Acts and Conversation in the Series 47
12. 3 Hoccleve and the Logic of Incompleteness 65
13. 4 A ‘troubly dreme drempt al in wakynge’: Hoccleve’s Nearly-Dream Poem 85
14. Part II Reading Life
15. 5 Hoccleve’s Series and the Unanticipated Woman Reader 105
16. 6 Hoccleve, Swelling and Bursting 124
17. 7 ‘Ransakid’ by Death: Body, Soul and Image in Hoccleve’s ‘Learn to Die’ 142
18. Part III Writing Life
19. 8 Hoccleve’s Formulary and the Matter of Everyday Life 167
20. 9 Hoccleve’s Feet: The Kinaesthetic Imaginary in Hoccleve’s Writing 197
21. 10 Curatorial Hoccleve: Spiritual and Codicological Illumination in the Regiment of Princes 215
22. 11 Reading Through: Major/Minor Hoccleve 230
23. Index 249