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LEADER: 02955cam a2200385 i 4500
001 2014010611
003 DLC
005 20150427125159.0
008 140523s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014010611
020 $a9781107076228 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aZ106.5.G7$bW35 2014
082 00 $a091/.0942$223
084 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh
100 1 $aWakelin, Daniel,$d1977-$eauthor.
245 10 $aScribal correction and literary craft :$bEnglish manuscripts 1375-1510 /$cDaniel Wakelin.
264 1 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axviii, 345 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCambridge studies in medieval literature ;$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 (pages 311-334) and indexes.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; Part I. Contexts: 2. Inviting correction; 3. Copying, varying and correcting; 4. People and places; Part II. Craft: 5. Techniques; 6. Accuracy; 7. Writing well; Part III. Literary Criticism: 8. Diction, tone and style; 9. Form; 10. Completeness; Part IV. Implications: 11. Authorship; 12. Conclusion: varying, correcting and critical thinking; Bibliography; Index of manuscripts.
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 / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/76228/cover/9781107076228.jpg