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020 $a9781107076228$q(hardback)
020 $a1107076226$q(hardback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn880541460
035 $a(OCoLC)880541460
035 $a(NNC)11137930
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050 00 $aZ106.5.G7$bW35 2014
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100 1 $aWakelin, Daniel,$eauthor.
245 10 $aScribal correction and literary craft :$bEnglish manuscripts 1375-1510 /$cDaniel Wakelin.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axviii, 345 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$v91
520 $a"This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Contexts -- Inviting correction -- Copying, varying and correcting -- People and institutions -- Craft -- Techniques -- Accuracy -- Writing well -- Literary criticism -- Diction, tone and style -- Form -- Completeness -- Implications -- Authorship -- Conclusion: varying, correcting and critical thinking.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aManuscripts, Medieval$zEngland$xHistory.
650 0 $aTransmission of texts.
650 0 $aLiterature, Medieval$xCriticism, Textual.
651 0 $aEngland$xIntellectual life$y1066-1485.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM$xEuropean$xEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aEnglish literature$xMiddle English.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01710961
650 7 $aIntellectual life.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00975769
650 7 $aLiterature, Medieval.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01000151
650 7 $aManuscripts, Medieval.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01008422
650 7 $aTransmission of texts.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01154863
651 7 $aEngland.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01219920
648 7 $a1066 - 1500$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830 0 $aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$v91.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/76228/cover/9781107076228.jpg
852 00 $bglx$hZ106.5.G7$iW35 2014