Scribal correction and literary craft : English manuscripts 1375-1510

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Scribal correction and literary craft : English manuscripts 1375-1510

Title remainder

English manuscripts 1375-1510

Statement of responsibility

Daniel Wakelin

Creator

• Wakelin, Daniel

Author

• Wakelin, Daniel

Subject

• Books -- England -- History -- 400-1450
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• England
• England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485
• English literature -- Middle English
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
• History
• Intellectual life
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Literature, Medieval
• Literature, Medieval -- Criticism, Textual
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- England
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- History
• Scribes -- England
• Transmission of texts
• Transmission of texts
• 1066 - 1500
• Books -- England -- History -- 1450-1600

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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"--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 91

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

091/.0942

Index

index present

LC call number

Z106.5.G7

LC item number

W35 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in medieval literature

Series volume

91