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The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides. Extending beyond the traditional scholarly discussions of insularity in relation to Middle English literature and 'isolationism', this volume:
Oversees a variety of genres and topics, including cultural identity, insular borders, linguistic interactions, literary gateways, Middle English texts and traditions, and modern interpretations such as race, gender studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonialism.
Draws on the combined extensive experience of teaching and research in medieval English and comparative literature within and outside of anglophone higher education and looks to the future of this fast-paced area of literary culture.
Contains an indispensable section on theoretical approaches to the study of literary texts.
This Companion provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to medieval literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on English literature.
Contents
Medieval English Literature: A trans-European Literary History
Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir
PART I:THE FORMS OF LITERATURE: INTRODUCTION
Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir
Orality, Vocality, and Textuality
Karl Reichl
Vernacularity
Wendy Scase
Books and Materiality
J. R. Mattison and Alexandra Gillespie
Form and Genre
Julie Orlemanski
PART II: INSULAR BORDERS AND LINGUISTIC INTERACTIONS: INTRODUCTION
Raluca Radulescu
Middle Welsh
Helen Fulton
Irish
Aisling Byrne
Scottish
Caitlin Flynn
Multilingualism
Ad Putter
PART III: LITERARY GATEWAYS: INTRODUCTION
Sif Rikhardsdottir
'Travel' of the Mind via Study: translatio studii et imperii
Elizaveta Strakhov
'Travel' of the Soul via Religiosity: Imaginary and Actual Pilgrimages
Ryan Perry
French-Speaking Courts and Literary Dominance in Europe
Keith Busby
The Norman Rule
Laura Ashe
The Venetian Gateway: Commerce, Plague, Oriental Motifs
Sif Rikhardsdottir
Origination and Mediation: Sicily
David Wallace
Islamic Pathways and Imaginary Borders
Shirin A. Khanmohamadi
Mercantile Networks
Craig E. Bertolet
Maps and the Medieval World at Large
Matthew Boyd Goldie
PART IV: MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS AND TRADITIONS: INTRODUCTION
Raluca Radulescu
The Endurance of Early English Literary Traditions
Orietta Da Rold
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Chronicle Tradition
Jaclyn Rajsic
Marie de France and Middle English Romance
Cory James Rushton
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Tradition
Lawrence Warner
Geoffrey Chaucer
Marion Turner
John Gower
Siân Echard
William Langland: European Poet?
Marco Nievergelt
Hoccleve and Lydgate: Transnationalism and Tradition
Sebastian J. Langdell
Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Female Spirituality
Laura Kalas
The Middle English Lyrics in Their European Context
Christiania Whitehead
Medieval English Drama and Performance
Charlotte Steenbrugge
Thomas Malory
Raluca Radulescu
Hagiography
Karen A. Winstead
PART V: THE MODERN MIDDLE AGES: INTRODUCTION
Sif Rikhardsdottir
Emotion
Andrew Lynch
Race
Wan-Chuan Kao
Gender/Queer
Laura Saetveit Miles and Samantha Katz Seal
Postcolonialism
Patricia Clare Ingham and Abby Ang
Ecocriticism
Michael J. Warren
Human/Animal
Karl Steel
Medievalism
David Matthews
