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The Anonymous Text

The 500-year History of The Assembly of Ladies

By: Simone Celine Marshall

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The Anonymous Text

The 500-year History of The Assembly of Ladies

By: Simone Celine Marshall

One of the most intriguing features of The Assembly of Ladies, an anonymous fifteenth-century Middle English poem, is that it has remained in print in anthologies for over 500 years. Why would a poem about courtly love remain so popular for so long? This book analyses the literary and historical publishing evidence about The Assembly of Ladies, to show that the poem has remained in print not for its literary merit, but because its anonymity has allowed it to be appropriated by editors for their own particular social and political causes. The book draws together textual, contextual, and intertextual evidence about all twenty editions of The Assembly of Ladies. By examining closely how and why a single text is or has been included in canonical traditions over time, this study not only reveals the material presence of the text in various traditions but also brings to the foreground the categories scholars continue to use while defining or imagining those traditions.

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Peter Lang

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3039119532

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The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

Text and Context in Fifteenth-Century England

By: Simone Celine Marshall

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Text and Context in Fifteenth-Century England

By: Simone Celine Marshall

The Assembly of Ladies is a fifteenth-century secular love poem in Middle English that adheres closely to conventional poetic structures, but throws these conventions into relief as it presents the narrative from a woman’s point of view, a rare occurrence for poetry of this period. Who wrote it, for whom and why, are questions about which we can speculate, but never ultimately answer–the poem itself gives us few clues. Yet the poem has had a remarkable shelf-life; in subsequent centuries the poem has continued to be noticed, read, and debated, as a small but significant artefact from fifteenth-century England. This book examines how fifteenth-century English social conventions impact upon gender relations in The Assembly of Ladies. By drawing on contemporary (and clearly influential) texts from the fifteenth century as a comparison, Marshall shows how The Assembly of Ladies has integrated social conventions into its themes and structure, elevating for the reader the ways that social and literary conventions impact on women in the production and consumption of literature.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443811602

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9781443811606

The Nature Essay

Ecocritical Explorations

By: Simone Schröder

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The Nature Essay

Ecocritical Explorations

By: Simone Schröder

The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations is the first extended study of a powerful literary form born out of the traditions of Enlightenment and Romanticism. It traces the varied stylistic paradigms of the ‘nature essay’ down to the present day. Reading essays as platforms for ecological discourse, the book analyses canonical and marginalised texts, mainly from German, English and American literature. Simone Schröder argues that the essay’s environmental impact is rooted in its negotiation of scientific, poetic, spiritual, and ethical modes of perceiving nature. Together, the chapters on these four aspects form a historical panorama of the nature essay as a genre that continues to flourish in our time of ecological crisis. Authors discussed include: Alexander von Humboldt, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Robert Musil, Ernst Jünger, W.G. Sebald, Kathleen Jamie, and David Foster Wallace.

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BRILL

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900438927X

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9789004389274

The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

Text and Context in Fifteenth-Century England

By: Simone Celine Marshall

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Text and Context in Fifteenth-Century England

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The Anonymous Text

The 500-year History of The Assembly of Ladies

By: Simone Celine Marshall

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The 500-year History of The Assembly of Ladies

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The Anonymous Text

The Anonymous Text

The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

The Nature Essay

The Nature Essay

The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

The Anonymous Text

The Anonymous Text

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