The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry / / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton.
Despite the great literary achievements of Chaucer, Langland, and the Pearl Poet, Ricardian English books were still a niche market in 1400. As Kathryn Kerby-Fulton shows, however, their generation was transformational in nurturing the resurgence of English writing, in part as a result of the mass u...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 54 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface. “Decidedly not the national language”
- Introduction. The Clericus Class, Underemployment, and the Golden Age of Middle English Poetry
- Part I. Clerical Proletarians and the Resurgence of English Poetry: Vocational Crisis and Self- Representation
- Chapter One. Precedents for Clerical Crisis and Authorial Intervention in Early Middle English
- Chapter Two. Poetry of Vocational Crisis in Langland’s Apologia and the Early Langlandian Tradition
- Chapter Three. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition I
- Chapter Four. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition II
- Part II. The Liturgical and CATHEDRAL SERVICE CLASS AND Resurgent English Verse
- Chapter Five. Cathedral Songs
- Chapter Six. Satire, Drama, and Censorship
- Chapter Seven. The Clerical Proletariat and Public Genres of the Cathedral World
- Conclusion. The Poet as Public Intellectual
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments