Medieval and early modern authorship / edited by Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Bolens, Guillemette, editor.

Erne, Lukas, editor.

Narr Verlag, publisher.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Swiss papers in English language and literature ; 25.

Swiss papers in English language and literature, 0940-0478 ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority in literature.

Authorship.

History.

English literature.

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism--Congresses.

Authorship--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Authority in literature--Congresses.

English literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Narr Verlag, 2011.

Contents:

Choosing poetic fathers : the English problem / Helen Cooper

Authorship, imitation, and refusal in late-medieval England / Robert R. Edwards

The tangled thread of authorship : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Jonson's Sejanus, his fall / Lynn S. Meskill

The author's drift in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida : a poetics of reflection / Johann Gregory

Authorship from Homer to Wordsworth via Milton / Neil Forsyth

Marvell's pronouns and the ethics of representation / Stephen Hequembourg

The forms of things unknown : English authorship and the early modern sublime / Patrick Cheney

Exchanging words for money : the Parnassus plays and literary remuneration / John Blakeley

Fictions of collaboration : authors and editors in the sixteenth century / Colin Burrow

Authorship and alteration : Shakespeare on the exclusion crisis stage and page, 1678-1682 / Emma Depledge

Portraiture, authorship, and the authentication of Shakespeare / Julianna Bark

Producing the Lector / Rita Copeland

The logic of authorship in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Stefania D'Agata D'Ottavi

Gestures of authorship in medieval English historiography : the case of Robert Mannyng of Brunne / Nicole Nyffenegger

By auctorite of experyence : the role of topography in Osbern Bokenham's Lives of native saints / Alice Spencer

Ethical poetry, poetic theology : a crisis of medieval authority? / Alastair Minnis.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held 2010 at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9783823366676

382336667X

OCLC:

773704476