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The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 2: 1350-1547: Reform and Cultural Revolution : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780198182610 : 0198182619 : 28 Nov 2002 : Breaks the mould of traditional approaches to the canon. This book covers both high medieval and Tudor writing, showing how the coming of the Renaissance and Reformation displaced the earlier, hospitably diverse literary culture. It continues into the mid-sixteenth century, and registers the impact of Henry VIII's cultural revolution.Read More

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    Unlike most medieval literary histories, which end with the coming of the Tudors, this volume continues into the mid-sixteenth century, and registers the impact of Henry VIII's cultural revolution and the linking of Church and State after the break with Rome. Reversing accepted truisms, Simpson shows how the diversity characteristic of medieval literature--in terms of genre, audience, even language itself--was narrowed and simplified by the huge cultural changes of the early 16th century. The volume ranges from Chaucer, Wyclif, and the Gawain-poet, and a host of less canonical writers and texts, to Wyatt, Leland, and Surrey and their novel poetic forms and new conceptions of history.

  • 0198182619
  • 9780198182610
  • James Simpson
  • 10 October 2002
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 680
  • illustrated edition
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