The Myth of Piers Plowman : Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive
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The Myth of Piers Plowman : Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive

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The Myth of Piers Plowman : Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive

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Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Series title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Figures
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Abbreviations
  11. A note on citations
  12. Introduction: archive fever and the madness of Joseph Ritson
  13. Chapter 1 William and the werewolf: the problem of William of Palerne
  14. Chapter 2 Localizing Piers Plowman C: Meed, Corfe castle, and the London Riot of 1384
  15. Chapter 3 Latinitas et communitas Visionis Willielmi de Langlond
  16. Chapter 4 "Quod piers plowman": non-reformist prophecy, c.1520-1555
  17. Chapter 5 Urry, Burrell, and the pains of John Taylor: the Spelman MS, 1709-1766
  18. Chapter 6 William Dupré, fabricateur: Piers Plowman in the age of forgery, c.1794-1802
  19. Conclusion: Leland's madness and the tale of Piers Plowman
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index of manuscripts, early printed books, annotated books, and portraits
  23. General index