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

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Author / Creator:Wakelin, Daniel, author.
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource
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.
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General.
English literature -- Middle English.
Intellectual life.
Literature, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Transmission of texts.
England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485.
England.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12015834
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ISBN:9781316073933
1316073939
9781139923279
1139923277
9781316078679
1316078671
9781107076228
1107076226
9781107431683
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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"--
Other form:Print version: Wakelin, Daniel. Scribal correction and literary craft 9781107076228
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Note on transcriptions; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Part I Contexts; 2 Inviting correction; 3 Copying, varying and correcting; 4 People and institutions; Part II Craft; 5 Techniques; 6 Accuracy; 7 Writing well; Part III Literary criticism; 8 Diction, tone and style; 9 Form; 10 Completeness; Part IV Implications; 11 Authorship; 12 Conclusion: varying, correcting and critical thinking; Bibliography; Index of manuscripts; General index.