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Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches
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This volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve since 1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English poetic tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth of ongoing critical interest in Hoccleve's work in its own right.
The Middle English poet Thomas Hoccleve, known particularly for his entertainingly biographical verse describing life as a Privy Seal clerk in early fifteenth-century Westminster, is now recognised as a key figure in the literature of later medieval England. This volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve since 1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English poetic tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth of ongoing critical interest in Hoccleve's work in its own right. Chapters explore the idiosyncratic forms of his two principle works, The Regiment of Princes and Series, as well as Hoccleve's distinctive imagery of moving feet, of swelling and bursting bodies, and of the actions of personified Death. Other essays consider the presence of the figure of the woman reader, the part played by the codex in posthumous literary sanctification, the links between Hoccleve's formulary of model letters and documents and his own verse, and the mutually informing relations of Hoccleve's minor poetry and major works. They are preceded by a substantial introduction, considering contemporary responses to Hoccleve in the light of current trends in literary criticism and surveying the reception of his works between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The Middle English poet Thomas Hoccleve, known particularly for his entertainingly biographical verse describing life as a Privy Seal clerk in early fifteenth-century Westminster, is now recognised as a key figure in the literature of later medieval England. This volume, the first collection of essays devoted to Hoccleve since 1996, both confirms his importance in shaping the English poetic tradition after Chaucer's death and demonstrates the depth of ongoing critical interest in Hoccleve's work in its own right. Chapters explore the idiosyncratic forms of his two principle works, The Regiment of Princes and Series, as well as Hoccleve's distinctive imagery of moving feet, of swelling and bursting bodies, and of the actions of personified Death. Other essays consider the presence of the figure of the woman reader, the part played by the codex in posthumous literary sanctification, the links between Hoccleve's formulary of model letters and documents and his own verse, and the mutually informing relations of Hoccleve's minor poetry and major works. They are preceded by a substantial introduction, considering contemporary responses to Hoccleve in the light of current trends in literary criticism and surveying the reception of his works between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Contributor: Jennifer Nuttall
Jenni Nuttall is Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She has written books on Lancastrian literature and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as articles on Middle English literary language and poetic forms.
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Contributor: David Watt
David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history.
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Contributor: Jennifer Nuttall
Jenni Nuttall is Lecturer in English at Exeter College, University of Oxford. She has written books on Lancastrian literature and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, as well as articles on Middle English literary language and poetic forms.
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Contributor: David Watt
David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history.
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Contributor: R D Perry
R.D. PERRY is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.
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Contributor: Laurie Atkinson
LAURIE ATKINSON is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen.
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Hoccleve Then and Now
1 - Part I Form in Context
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1 Historicising Hoccleve’s Metre
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2 Speech Acts and Conversation in the Series
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3 Hoccleve and the Logic of Incompleteness
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4 A ‘troubly dreme drempt al in wakynge’: Hoccleve’s Nearly-Dream Poem
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5 Hoccleve’s Series and the Unanticipated Woman Reader
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6 Hoccleve, Swelling and Bursting
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7 ‘Ransakid’ by Death: Body, Soul and Image in Hoccleve’s ‘Learn to Die’
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8 Hoccleve’s Formulary and the Matter of Everyday Life
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9 Hoccleve’s Feet: The Kinaesthetic Imaginary in Hoccleve’s Writing
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10 Curatorial Hoccleve: Spiritual and Codicological Illumination in the Regiment of Princes
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11 Reading Through: Major/Minor Hoccleve
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Index
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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June 26, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781800106420
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D.S.Brewer
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Keywords for this book
Middle English poet; Thomas Hoccleve; English poetic tradition; Chaucer's death; critical interest; The Regiment of Princes; Series; imagery; moving feet; bursting bodies; personified Death; woman reader; codex; minor poetry
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
