Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval

BIC code: CSBB
See also: Literary History & Criticism

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  Reading Literature Historically: Drama And Poetry From Chaucer To The Reformation
  Greg Walker - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  How far should we try to read medieval and early modern texts historically? Does the attempt to uncover how such texts might have been received by their original readers and audiences uncover new, hitherto unexpected contemporary resonances in them? Or does it flatten works of art into mere 'secondary sources' for historical analysis? This book makes the case for the study of literature in context.
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  The Girlhood Of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender Transgression, Adolescence
  Jennifer Higginbotham - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for the paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. She demonstrates that girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to the little children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city comedies.
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  Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts
  - Hardback - D.S. Brewer
  The essays in this volume take a representative selection of English and Scottish romances from the medieval period and explore some of their medieval contexts, deepening our understanding not only of the romances concerned but also of the specific medieval contexts that produced or influenced them.