New Medieval Literatures Volume V

by Copeland, Rita; Lawton, David; Scase, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780199252503
• ISBN10: 0199252505
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures. Volume 5 is marked by a preoccupation with origins or beginnings: the return to some of the foundational texts of the "modern," here Marx, Freud, and classical Marxist literary criticism; or how the Middle Agesthematized its own antecedents, in the founding myth of imperial Rome, the originary force of martyrdom, and the reformist foundations of monasticism.

Author Biography

Rita Copeland is Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania David Lawton is Professor of English Literature, Washington University, St Louis Wendy Scase is Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Birmingham

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Introduction: Remembering After Postmodernism	1	(6)
Rita Copeland
Aeneas in 1381	7	(52)
Christopher Baswell
Crypt and Decryption: Erkenwald Terminable and Interminable	59	(28)
D. Vance Smith
Medieval Death, Modern Morality, and the Fallacies of Intention	87	(28)
Jody Enders
A Man is Being Beaten	115	(40)
Robert Mills
Queering Sponsalia Christi: Virginity, Gender, and Desire in the Early Middle English Anchoritic Texts	155	(22)
Sarah Salih
The Geography of Genre in the Physicians Tale and Pearl	177	(26)
Catherine Sanok
Monastic Politics: St Colette of Corbie, Franciscan Reform, and the House of Burgundy	203	(26)
Nancy Bradley Warren
Analytical Survey 5: `Reading is Good Prayer': Recent Research on Female Reading Communities	229	(70)
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Index	299