The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 22.0287 Thursday, 3 November 2011
From: Kareen Seidler <
Date: October 30, 2011 4:32:25 AM EDT
Subject: Medieval and Early Modern Authorship
Medieval and Early Modern Authorship
Edited by Guillemette Bolens and Lukas Erne
“This rich, challenging and exceptionally well conceived collection addresses the construction of authorship in medieval and early modern England, and revises received opinion in important ways. All the essays are worth attention; several should be considered essential reading.”
Stephen Orgel, J. E. Reynolds Professor in the Humanities,Stanford University
Reports of his death having been greatly exaggerated, the author has made a spectacular return in English studies. This is the first book devoted to medieval and early modern authorship, exploring continuities, discontinuities, and innovations in the two periods which literary histories and institutional practices too often keep apart. Canonical authors receive sustained attention (notably Chaucer, Gower, Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, and Marvell), and so do key issues in the current scholarly debate, such as authorial self-fashioning, the fictionalisation of authorship, the posthumous construction of authorship, and the nexus of authorship and authority. Other important topics whose relations to authorship are explored include adaptation, paratext, portraiture, historiography, hagiography, theology, and the sublime.
Contents
Lukas Erne, Introduction
Helen Cooper, Choosing Poetic Fathers: The English Problem
Robert R. Edwards, Authorship, Imitation, and Refusal in Late-Medieval England
Lynn S. Meskill, The Tangled Thread of Authorship: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Jonson’s Sejanus, His Fall
Johann Gregory, The “author’s drift” in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: A Poetics of Reflection
Neil Forsyth, Authorship from Homer to Wordsworth via Milton
Stephen Hequembourg, Marvell’s Pronouns and the Ethics of Representation
Patrick Cheney, “The forms of things unknown”: English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime
John Blakeley, Exchanging “words for mony”: The Parnassus Plays and Literary Remuneration
Colin Burrow, Fictions of Collaboration: Authors and Editors in the Sixteenth
Century
Emma Depledge, Authorship and Alteration: Shakespeare on the Exclusion Crisis
Stage and Page, 1678-1682
Julianna Bark, Portraiture, Authorship, and the Authentication of Shakespeare
Rita Copeland, Producing the Lector
Stefania D’Agata D’Ottavi, The Logic of Authorship in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde
Nicole Nyffenegger, Gestures of Authorship in Medieval English Historiography: The Case of Robert Mannyng of Brunne
Alice Spencer, “By Auctorite of Experyence”: The Role of Topography in Osbern Bokenham’s Lives of Native Saints
Alastair Minnis, Ethical Poetry, Poetic Theology: A Crisis of Medieval Authority?
Tübingen: Gunter Narr
November 2011, 325 pages, € 49,00
ISBN 978-3-8233-6667-6