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020 $a9781107043633 (hardback)
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035 $a(OCoLC)861211818
035 $a(NNC)10820033
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050 00 $aPR2015$b.W37 2014
082 00 $a821/.1$223
084 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh
100 1 $aWarner, Lawrence,$d1968-,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe myth of Piers Plowman :$bconstructing a medieval literary archive /$cLawrence Warner.
264 1 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axiv, 220 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$v89
520 $a"Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aIntroduction: archive fever and the madness of Joseph Ritson; 1. William and the werewolf: the problem of William of Palerne; 2. Localizing Piers Plowman C: Meed, Corfe Castle, and the London Riot of 1384; 3. Latinitas et Communitas Visionis Willielmi de Longlond; 4. Quod Piers Plowman: non-Reformist prophecy, c. 1520-55; 5. Urry, Burrell, and the pains of John Taylor: the Spelman MS (Huntington Hm 114), 1709-1766; 6. William Dupre;, Fabricateur: Piers Plowman in the Age of Forgery; Conclusion: Leland's madness and the tale of Piers Plowman; Bibliography
520 0 $a"Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood"
600 10 $aLangland, William,$d1330?-1400?$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aLangland, William,$d1330?-1400?$xAuthorship.
600 10 $aLangland, William,$d1330?-1400?$tPiers Plowman$xCriticism, Textual.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
600 17 $aLangland, William,$d1332-1400.$tPiers Plowman.$2gnd
830 0 $aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$v89.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/43633/cover/9781107043633.jpg
852 00 $bglx$hPR2015$i.W37 2014