Description
Book SynopsisThe study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. ''New'' texts (laws and penitentials, women''s writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and s
Trade ReviewElisabeth Dutton's chapter 'Secular Drama' in The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English...provides an examination of the nature of secular medievaldrama in England against the dominant force of the mystery cycles, which have hitherto garnered the lion's share of critical attention. * Daisy Black and Sarah Brazil, The English Association *
Table of ContentsPROLOGUE; LITERARY PRODUCTION; LITERARY CONSUMPTION; LITERATURE, CLERICAL, AND LAY; LITERARY REALITIES; COMPLEX IDENTITIES; LITERARY PLACE, SPACE, AND TIME; LITERARY JOURNEYS; EPILOGUE; INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS; GENERAL INDEX
