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The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's 'Series'
David Watt
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Description for The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's 'Series'
Hardcover. The first book-length study of Thomas Hoccleve's 'Series' (1419-21), a medieval compilation of texts that exemplify several different literary forms: complaint, dialogue, tale and moralization, and treatise. It combines close textual reading with study of the manuscripts. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
Thomas Hoccleve’s Series (1419-21) tells the story of its own making. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series analyzes this story and considers what it might contribute to the larger story about book production in the fifteenth century. Focusing on four surviving manuscripts made by Hoccleve himself between 1422 and 1426, the first four chapters explore the making of the Series in context. They examine the importance of audience judgment in the selection and juxtaposition of forms, the extent to which the physical flexibility of books could serve the needs of their owners and their makers, the changing tastes of fifteenth-century ... Read more
Thomas Hoccleve’s Series (1419-21) tells the story of its own making. The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s Series analyzes this story and considers what it might contribute to the larger story about book production in the fifteenth century. Focusing on four surviving manuscripts made by Hoccleve himself between 1422 and 1426, the first four chapters explore the making of the Series in context. They examine the importance of audience judgment in the selection and juxtaposition of forms, the extent to which the physical flexibility of books could serve the needs of their owners and their makers, the changing tastes of fifteenth-century ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780859898690
SKU
V9780859898690
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About David Watt
David Watt is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. He has published articles on Hoccleve and book history and has contributed to the Broadview Anthology of British Literature.
Reviews for The Making of Thomas Hoccleve's 'Series'
The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’sSeries offers a refreshing and much- needed contrast to the usual critical approaches to the Series, which tend to concern themselves with Thomas’s financial worries, politics, and mental health.
Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 3,
Watt aims to show how attention to specific cases of book-‘making’ (both in the sense of composition and ... Read more
Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 3,
Watt aims to show how attention to specific cases of book-‘making’ (both in the sense of composition and ... Read more