A Companion to British Literature

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4 Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. Published Recently 65. A Companion to Tudor Literature Edited by Kent Cartwright 66. A Companion to Crime Fiction Edited by Charles Rzepka and Lee Horsley 67. A Companion to Medieval Poetry Edited by Corinne Saunders 68. A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway 69. A Companion to the American Short Story Edited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel 70. A Companion to American Literature and Culture Edited by Paul Lauter 71. A Companion to African American Literature Edited by Gene Jarrett 72. A Companion to Irish Literature Edited by Julia M. Wright 73. A Companion to Romantic Poetry Edited by Charles Mahoney 74. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West Edited by Nicolas S. Witschi 75. A Companion to Sensation Fiction Edited by Pamela K. Gilbert 76. A Companion to Comparative Literature Edited by Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas 77. A Companion to Poetic Genre Edited by Erik Martiny 78. A Companion to American Literary Studies Edited by Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine 79. A New Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter 80. A Companion to the American Novel Edited by Alfred Bendixen 81. A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation Edited by Deborah Cartmell 82. A Companion to George Eliot Edited by Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw 83. A Companion to Creative Writing Edited by Graeme Harper 84. A Companion to British Literature, 4 volumes Edited by Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher

5 A C O M P A N I O N T O BRITISH LITERATURE Volume I Medieval Literature E D I T E D B Y R O B E R T D E M A R I A, J R., H E E S O K C H A N G, A N D S A M A N T H A Z A C H E R

6 This edition first published John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA , USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at The right of Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher to be identified as the authors of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks. All brand names and product names used in this book are trade names, service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The publisher is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and authors have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. It is sold on the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering professional services and neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for damages arising herefrom. If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to British literature / edited by Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, Samantha Zacher. v. cm. (Blackwell companions to literature and culture) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: volume I. Medieval Literature volume II. Early Modern Literature volume III. Long Eighteenth-Century Literature volume IV. Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature ISBN (hardback) 1. English literature History and criticism. 2. Great Britain Intellectual life. I. DeMaria, Robert, Jr., 1948 editor of compilation. II. Chang, Heesok, editor of compilation. III. Zacher, Samantha, 1973 editor of compilation. PR85.C dc A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover image: Monk Eadwine at work on manuscript, Eadwine Psalter, ca. 1150, English School/Trinity College, Cambridge Ms R 17 I f.283v/the Bridgeman Art Library Cover design by Richard Boxall Design Associates Set in 11 on 13 pt Garamond 3 by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited

7 Contents Volume I: Medieval Literature Full Table of Contents Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume I General Introduction Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Medieval Literature Samantha Zacher Chronology ix xix xx xxiv xxxi xlviii 1 The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 1 Karl Reichl 2 Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 16 Katherine O Brien O Keeffe 3 Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 30 Emily V. Thornbury 4 Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 48 Paul E. Szarmach 5 The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints Legends in John of Tynemouth s Sanctilogium 65 Virginia Blanton 6 Racial Imagination and the Theater of War: Captivity and Execution in Richard, Coer de Lion 81 Suzanne M. Yeager

8 vi Volume I: Medieval Literature The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After Neil Cartlidge 8 Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul 114 Liz Herbert McAvoy 9 Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation: The Narrative Pragmatics of an Ideal 130 Christine Chism 10 Writing Revolution 146 Marion Turner 11 The Romance Genre 161 Corinne Saunders 12 Interior Visions: Piers Plowman and the Dream Vision Genre 180 Michael Calabrese 13 British Chaucer 202 John M. Ganim 14 Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England 215 Andrew Galloway 15 Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture 232 Denise L. Despres 16 Sources, Analogues, Creativity 243 Tim William Machan 17 Performing Communities: The Variety of Dramatic Practices in Medieval England 256 Christina M. Fitzgerald 18 Old English and Anglo-Latin: The Odd Couple 273 Andy Orchard 19 Before the Makars: Older Scots Literature Under the Early Stewart Kings 293 Rhiannon Purdie 20 Originating Britain: Welsh Literature and the Arthurian Tradition 308 Helen Fulton 21 Writing from the Other Shore and the Beginnings of Vernacular Literature in Ireland 323 Joseph Falaky Nagy

9 Contents vii 22 The Circulation and Compilation of Devotional Books: Assessing the Material Evidence of Women s Reading 337 Jacqueline Jenkins 23 Collectors and Collections: Libraries and Their Social and Private Functions 355 David N. Bell 24 In Praise of Power: Prince and Poet in Fifteenth-Century Court Poetry 369 Robert J. Meyer-Lee 25 Word and Image 384 Elaine Treharne 26 New Technologies: From Manuscript to Print 403 Siân Echard Selected References and Further Reading 418 Index to Volume I 435

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11 Full Table of Contents Volume I: Medieval Literature Full Table of Contents Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume I General Introduction Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Medieval Literature Samantha Zacher Chronology ix xix xx xxiv xxxi xlvii 1 The Oral and the Written: Aspects of Oral Composition, Performance, and Reception 1 Karl Reichl 2 Old English Literature and the Negotiations of Tradition 16 Katherine O Brien O Keeffe 3 Lyric Form, Subjectivity, and Consciousness 30 Emily V. Thornbury 4 Sermons and Saints: From the Late Tenth to the Eleventh Centuries 48 Paul E. Szarmach 5 The Lost and (Not) Found: Sources for Female Saints Legends in John of Tynemouth s Sanctilogium 65 Virginia Blanton

12 x Volume I: Medieval Literature Racial Imagination and the Theater of War: Captivity and Execution in Richard, Coer de Lion 81 Suzanne M. Yeager 7 The Norman Conquest and English Literary Culture After Neil Cartlidge 8 Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul 114 Liz Herbert McAvoy 9 Courtly Love and Its Impossible Implementation: The Narrative Pragmatics of an Ideal 130 Christine Chism 10 Writing Revolution 146 Marion Turner 11 The Romance Genre 161 Corinne Saunders 12 Interior Visions: Piers Plowman and the Dream Vision Genre 180 Michael Calabrese 13 British Chaucer 202 John M. Ganim 14 Writing Heresy, Apostasy, and Anticlericalism in Medieval England 215 Andrew Galloway 15 Ecstasy, Intimacy, and Middle English Contemplative Culture 232 Denise L. Despres 16 Sources, Analogues, Creativity 243 Tim William Machan 17 Performing Communities: The Variety of Dramatic Practices in Medieval England 256 Christina M. Fitzgerald 18 Old English and Anglo-Latin: The Odd Couple 273 Andy Orchard 19 Before the Makars: Older Scots Literature Under the Early Stewart Kings 293 Rhiannon Purdie 20 Originating Britain: Welsh Literature and the Arthurian Tradition 308 Helen Fulton

13 Full Table of Contents xi 21 Writing from the Other Shore and the Beginnings of Vernacular Literature in Ireland 323 Joseph Falaky Nagy 22 The Circulation and Compilation of Devotional Books: Assessing the Material Evidence of Women s Reading 337 Jacqueline Jenkins 23 Collectors and Collections: Libraries and Their Social and Private Functions 355 David N. Bell 24 In Praise of Power: Prince and Poet in Fifteenth-Century Court Poetry 369 Robert J. Meyer-Lee 25 Word and Image 384 Elaine Treharne 26 New Technologies: From Manuscript to Print 403 Siân Echard Selected References and Further Reading 418 Index to Volume I 435 Volume II: Early Modern Literature Full Table of Contents Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume II General Introduction Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Early Modern Literature Robert DeMaria, Jr. Chronology ix xix xx xxv xxxii xxxix 1 The Spectral Past: Medieval Literature in the Early Modern Period 1 David Matthews 2 The Fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton 16 Willy Maley and Adam Swann 3 Robert Burton and the Discontents of Print 29 David J. Baker 4 Anglo-European Literary Relations in the Sixteenth Century 40 Alessandra Petrina

14 xii Volume I: Medieval Literature Mapping the British Archipelago in the Renaissance 54 Stewart Mottram 6 Renaissance or Reformation? 70 Michael Payne 7 Religious Reading and Writing in an Age of Bloodshed 82 Achsah Guibbory 8 Translations of Virgil from Gavin Douglas to Sir John Denham 98 Robin Sowerby 9 England, the Orient, and the Ocean 116 Benedict Robinson 10 Politics and Religion in Elizabethan Drama 129 Lisa Hopkins 11 Women s Literary and Intellectual Endeavors: A Case for the Anonymous Riposte 142 Marcy L. North 12 Shakespeare and the Arts of Persuasion 164 Michael Macdonald 13 Texts and Performances in the Age of Elizabeth 181 Tom Rutter 14 Physics, Metaphysics, and Religion in Lyric Poetry 197 Wendy Beth Hyman 15 The Early English Essay 213 Joshua Scodel 16 Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives 231 Christopher Crosbie 17 Scots Literature in the Age of the Makars and Beyond 249 Katherine H. Terrell 18 Violence in Jacobean Drama 264 Zoltán Márkus 19 First Folios: Jonson and Shakespeare 280 Adam G. Hooks 20 Riding Westward: Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and the Literature of Empire 295 Jonathan Locke Hart

15 Full Table of Contents xiii 21 Cheap Print and Popular Reading During the Civil Wars, Joad Raymond 22 Republican Writing from Milton to Locke 326 Nigel Smith 23 John Bunyan and the Spaces of Religious Writing 342 Cynthia Wall 24 Paradise Lost: Contexts and Poetic Creation 359 Barbara K. Lewalski 25 Human, Animal, and Machine in the Seventeenth Century 375 Lucinda Cole and Robert Markley Selected References and Further Reading 391 Index to Volume II 402 Volume III: Long Eighteenth-Century Literature Full Table of Contents Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume III General Introduction Robert DeMaria, Jr. Introduction to Long Eighteenth-Century Literature Robert DeMaria, Jr. Chronology ix xix xx xxiv xxxi xxxviii 1 Understanding Genre: Epic, Mock Epic, and Some Versions of Heroism from Milton to Pope 1 David Venturo 2 History and Literature from Milton to Wollstonecraft 19 Ruth Mack 3 Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century 35 Neil Rhodes 4 Aphra Behn and the Profession of Writing in the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century 49 Catherine Ingrassia 5 The Virgilian Way from Milton to Wordsworth 62 Adam Potkay