Medieval into Renaissance : essays for Helen Cooper / edited by Andrew King and Matthew Woodcock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooper, Helen, 1947- honouree.

Woodcock, Matthew, 1973-

King, Andrew, 1968-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

English literature--Middle English.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

x, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2016.

Summary:

The borderline between the periods commonly termed "medieval" and "Renaissance," or "medieval" and "early modern," is one of the most hotly, energetically and productively contested faultlines in literary history studies. The essays presented in this volume both build upon and respond to the work of Professor Helen Cooper, a scholar who has long been committed to exploring the complex connections and interactions between medieval and Renaissance literature. The contributors re-examine a range of ideas, authors and genres addressed in her work, including pastoral, chivalric romance, early English drama, and the writings of Chaucer, Langland, Spenser and Shakespeare. As a whole, the volume aims to stimulate active debates on the ways in which Renaissance writers used, adapted, and remembered aspects of the medieval.

Contents:

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction / Andrew King and Matthew Woodcock

Unknowe, unkow, Vncovthe, uncouth: from Chaucer and Gower to Spense and Milton / Alexandra Gillespie

Armour that doesn't work: an anti-meme in Medieval and Renaissance romance / R.W. Maslen

"Of his ffader spak he no thing:" family resemblance and anxiety of influence in fifteenth-century prose romance / Megan G. Leitch

Writing westwards: medieval English romances and their early modern Irish audiences / Aisling Byrne

Penitential romance after the Reformation / James Wade

The English laureate in time: John Skelton's Garland of Laurel / Mary C. Flannery

Thomas CHurchyard and the medieval complaint tradition / Matthew Woodcock

Placing Arcadia / Nandini Das

Fathers, sons and surrogate: fatherly advice in Hamlet / Jason Powell

"To visit the sick court:" mysogyny as disease in Swetnam the Woman-Hunter / Joyce Boro

The monument of uncertainty: sovereign and literary authority in Samuel Sheppard's The Faerie King / Andrew King

Mopsa's Arcadia: choice flowers gathered out of Sir Philip Sidney's rare garden into Eighteenth-century chapbooks / Helen Vincent

Bibliography

Index

A bibliography of Helen Cooper's published works

Tabula gratulatoria.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index (pages 273-277)

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781843844327

184384432X

OCLC:

923794944