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Later medieval English literature / Douglas Gray.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR291 .G73 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Douglas, 1930-2017.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 712 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 The World: Centres and Edges 3
- 2 Bodies, Souls, and Minds 45
- 3 Media: Image and Word 94
- II Prose
- 4 'Practical' Prose 157
- 5 Malory and Prose Romance 179
- 6 Later Prose Romance: Caxton to Berners 205
- 7 Tales, Jests, and Novelle in Prose 218
- 8 'Books of Ensaumples and Doctryne': The Prose of Moral Instruction 229
- 9 Religious Prose I: Introduction: Lollards and Answers to Them; Sermons and Books of Religious Instruction 246
- 10 Religious Prose II: Mystical and Visionary Writing; Religious Narratives; Devotional Texts; the Eve of the Reformation 270
- III Poetry
- 11 Hoccleve and Lydgate 307
- 12 Learned, Encyclopedic, and Didactic Verse 326
- 13 'Chaucerian' Poems 344
- 14 Lyrics 355
- 15 Romances and Tales 381
- 16 Hawes, Barclay, and Skelton 411
- IV Scottish Writing
- 18 Verse: Wintoun, Hary, The Kingis Quair, The Quare of Jelusy, The Buke of the Howlat 464
- 19 Robert Henryson: Narratives and Romances in Verse 486
- 20 William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas 533
- V Drama
- 22 Mystery Cycles I: Old Testament 599
- 23 Mystery Cycles II: New Testament 633
- 24 Morality Plays and Interludes 666.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780198122180
- 0198122187
- OCLC:
- 191929696
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