Medieval and Early Modern Authorship
Contents:
Introduction
Helen Cooper (Cambridge)
Choosing Poetic Fathers: The English Problem
Robert R. Edwards (Pennsylvania State)
Authorship, Imitation, and Refusal in Late-Medieval England
Lynn S. Meskill (Paris-Diderot)
The Tangled Thread of Authorship: Shakespeare鈥檚 Julius Caesar and Jonson鈥檚 Sejanus, His Fall
Johann Gregory (Cardiff)
The 鈥渁uthor鈥檚 drift鈥� in Shakespeare鈥檚 Troilus and Cressida: A Poetics of Reflection
Neil Forsyth (Lausanne)
Authorship from Homer to Wordsworth via Milton
Stephen Hequembourg (Harvard)
Marvell鈥檚 Pronouns and the Ethics of Representation
Patrick Cheney (Pennsylvania State)
鈥淭he forms of things unknown鈥�: English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime鈥�
John Blakeley (Plymouth St Mark & St John)
Exchanging 鈥渨ords for mony鈥�: The Parnassus Plays and Literary Remuneration
Colin Burrow (Oxford)
Fictions of Collaboration: Authors and Editors in the Sixteenth Century
Emma Depledge (Geneva)
Authorship and Alteration: Shakespeare on the Exclusion Crisis Stage and Page, 1678-1682
Julianna Bark (Geneva)
Portraiture, Authorship, and the Authentication of Shakespeare
Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Producing the Lector
Stefania D鈥橝gata D鈥橭ttavi (Siena)
The Logic of Authorship in Chaucer鈥檚 Troilus and Criseyde
Nicole Nyffenegger (Bern)
Gestures of Authorship in Medieval English Historiography: The case of Robert Mannyng of Brunne
Alice Spencer (Turin)
鈥淏y Auctorite of Experyence鈥�: The Role of Topography in Osbern Bokenham鈥檚 Lives of Native Saints
Alastair Minnis (Yale)
Ethical Poetry, Poetic Theology: A Crisis of Medieval Authority?
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Summary:
Reports of his death having been greatly exaggerated, the author has made a spectacular return in English studies. This is the first book devoted to medieval and early modern authorship, exploring continuities, discontinuities, and innovations in the two periods which literary histories and institutional practices too often keep apart. Canonical authors receive sustained attention (notably Chaucer, Gower, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, and Marvell), and so do key issues in the current scholarly debate, such as authorial self-fashioning, the fictionalisation of authorship, the posthumous construction of authorship, and the nexus of authorship and authority. Other important topics whose relation to authorship are explored include adaptation, paratext, portraiture, historiography, hagiography, theology, and the sublime. The contributors are an international team of leading medieval and early modern scholars, among them Colin Burrow, Patrick Cheney, Helen Cooper, Rita Copeland, Robert Edwards, Neil Forsyth, and Alastair Minnis.
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Reviews:
鈥淭his rich, challenging and exceptionally well conceived collection addresses the construction of authorship in medieval and early modern England, and revises received opinion in important ways. All the essays are worth attention; several should be considered essential reading.鈥�
Stephen Orgel, J. E. Reynolds Professor in the Humanities, Stanford AV短视频
鈥渞ich, engaging collection 鈥� focused eloquent introduction 鈥� The essays 鈥� are consistently provocative, complicating earlier criticism and devising new methodological approaches.鈥� (Renaissance Quarterly)
鈥渢he contributions 鈥� possess an exceptionally high overall quality鈥� (Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies)
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