New Medieval Literatures Volume III [Hardcover]

New Medieval Literaturesis an annual containing the best new interdisciplinary work in medieval textual cultures. Volume 3 combines important work by established scholars with the results of the editors' quest for major new voices, including the prize-winning essay in their first competition for younger scholars. The themes of the volume are the production of knowledge and text, cultural change and exchange, from early medieval China to fifteenth-century England. There are also paired and contrasting essays on Dante and on Langland. The volume ends with Sarah Kay's important survey of modern medievalist scholarship, the New Philology.

Introduction: Production, Place, and Fantasy,David Lawton
Dante in Somerset: Ghosts, Historiography, Periodization,David Wallace
The Four Last Things in Dante and Chaucer: Ugolino in the House of Rumour,Helen Cooper
Another Country: AElfric and the Production of English Identity,Kathy Lavezzo
Forgery at the University of Cambridge,Alfred Hiatt
Rivalry and Reciprocity in Lydgate'sTroy Book,Scott-Morgan Straker
Reading Caxton: Transformations in Capital, Authority, Prints, and Persona in the Late Fifteenth Century,William Kuskin
'Studying' in the Middle Agesand inPiers Plowman,Nicolette Zeeman
School and Scorn: Gender inPiers Plowman,Ralph Hanna III
Dirty Stories: Abjection in the Fabliaux,Miranda Griffin
Panoptican in her Bedroom: Voyeurism and the Concept of Space in the Love Lyrics of Early Medieval China,Anne Birrell
Analytical Survery 3: The New Philology,Sarah Kay
Index

David Lawton is Professor of English Literature, Washington University, St Louis