Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530: Volume 8

by Lee Patterson

Book Overview

As a traditional site of historical criticism, medieval studies is particularly well placed to benefit from the recent reemergence of historicism in literary studies. But this new "critical historicism" differes from the traditional criticism in both method an interests, differences that are well illustrated by this collection. A concern with politics, a reliance on the materials of economic and social history, a conception of writing as a form of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520414756
• ISBN13: 9780520414754
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"