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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 April 2011
      10 March 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511780158
      9780521809573
      9781107686564
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780158
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, British History after 1450, History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (80)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, British History after 1450, History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (80)
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    This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.

    Reviews

    "This work is a challenging examination of eight poets associated with royalcourts, English and Scottish, between 1485 and 1528. Its concern is the way inwhich these writers engage with authority—royal, political and patronal, cultural,literary, and generic — and how those engagements shape the poetic I."
    --Renaissance Society of America

    "This is a careful study that attempts to set the literary construction of latemedieval Scottish and English court poetry in the context of Europeanhumanism."
    --Parergon - Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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