Traditions and innovations : essays on British literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by David G. Allen and Robert A. White

1990, 1st edition. Newark : University of Delaware Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426370
ISBN: 0874133556

Physical description; 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Causality and miracle / R.E. Kaske -- Separations and St. Paul's thorn in Chaucer's Troilus / David W. Hiscoe -- Fragment VII of Chaucer's Canterbury tales and the mental climate of the fourteenth century" / Emerson Brown, Jr. -- The flyting contract and adversarial patterning in the alliterative Morte Arthure / Ward Parks -- Caxton's copy-text for Le morte dArthur / Richard R. Griffith -- Text and textura / Pamela Royston Macfie -- Living with Elizabethans / George Garrett -- Patriarchal fatherhood in Ben Jonson's Epigram 45 / H.W. Matalene -- "Inviting a friend to svpper" / Robert C. Evans -- Richard II, 5.3 / Dorothea Kehler -- Nightingales that roar / Jay L. Halio.
(Cont.) -- Thomas Heywood's A woman killed with kindness as domestic morality / Michael Wentworth -- The tragedy of Annabella in 'Tis pity she's a whore / Nathaniel Strout -- Woman on the Jacobean stage / Charlotte Spivack -- The temptation of Eve / Debora K. Shuger -- Narcissus in Paradise Lost and Upon Appleton House / Kathleen Kelly -- Herbert's reciprocal writing / Harriet Kramer Linkin -- Resonance in the poetry of Robert Herrick / Robert W. Halli, Jr. -- Victim criminalized / Lorrayne Y. Baird-Lange -- King George of England meets Samuel Johnson the great cham of literature / Alvin B. Kernon. Subjects; 1100-1700. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. Civilization, Medieval, in literature. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). Originality in literature. Renaissance England.

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