Title Socioliterary practice in late Medieval England / Helen Barr

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 229 pages) Contents Constructing social realities: Wynnere and Wastoure, Hoccleve, and Chaucer -- Pearl, or 'The jeweller's tale' -- Unfixing the king: Gower's Cronica tripertita and Richard the redeless -- The regal image of Richard II and the Prologue to the legend of good women -- 'From pig to man and man to pig': the 1381 uprisings in Chaucer's The nun's priest's tale -- 'Blessed are the horny hands of toil': Wycliffite representations of the third estate -- Coded birds and bees: unscrambling Mum and the sothsegger and The boke of cupide -- Afterward: 'Adieu Sir Churl': Lydgate's The churl and the bird Summary This title bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- England -- History and criticism Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500 Social history in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Middle English Intellectual life Latin literature, Medieval and modern Social history in literature Literature and society Social conditions Literatur Letterkunde. Middelengels. Middeleeuws Latijn. Sociale situatie. SUBJECT England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043312 England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043300 Subject England England Mittelenglisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 128044469X 9781280444692 9780191707865 0191707864 9786610444694 6610444692 9780191540868 0191540862

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