The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature

The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780192662873
ISBN-13 : 0192662872
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Book Synopsis The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature by : Philip Knox

Download or read book The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature written by Philip Knox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance of the Rose had a transformative effect on the multilingual literary culture of fourteenth-century England, leaving more material evidence for late medieval English-speaking readers than any other vernacular literary work from mainland Europe. This book examines its decisive effect on English literature of the fourteenth century, and new literary experiments it provoked from writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, and the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Linking the English afterlife of the Rose to a host of ongoing cultural developments in mainland Europe, The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature reveals the deep interconnectedness of English and European literary culture. Examining courtly, clerical, and classicising orientations towards the text, it presents new arguments for the place of the Rose at the centre of fourteenth-century English literature, and explores its rich manuscript history to reveal new evidence about the cultural significance of this love allegory from thirteenth-century France. The chapters avoid an author-centred approach, arranging readings of the Rose and its relation with English literature in constellations that reveal complex unfolding inter-relation of the diverse readings of the Rose that took place in fourteenth-century England.


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