Scribal correction and literary craft : English manuscripts 1375-1510 /

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Author / Creator:Wakelin, Daniel, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:xviii, 345 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 91
Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 91.
Subject:English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- History.
Transmission of texts.
Literature, Medieval -- Criticism, Textual.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Middle English.
Intellectual life.
Literature, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Transmission of texts.
England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10116639
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ISBN:9781107076228
1107076226
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
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