Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses class, meritocracy, the gig economy, precarity, and the breaking of intellectual elites, speaking to both past and present employment urgencies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252637
• ISBN-10: 0812252632
• Artikelnr.: 60321477

Autorenporträt

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface. "Decidedly not the national language"
Introduction. The Clericus Class, Underemployment, and the Golden Age of
Middle English Poetry
Part I. Clerical Proletarians and the Resurgence of English Poetry:
Vocational Crisis and Self-Representation
Chapter One. Precedents for Clerical Crisis and Authorial Intervention in
Early Middle English
Chapter Two. Poetry of Vocational Crisis in Langland's Apologia and the
Early Langlandian Tradition
Chapter Three. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition I:
Hoccleve's Missed Opportunity and Self-Portraiture in Vocational Crisis
Chapter Four. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition II: John
Audelay as the Voice for a Lost Generation
Part II. The Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Proletariat Resurgent and
English Verse
Chapter Five. Cathedral Songs: Lyric Genres of the Choral Service Class and
the Resurgent English
Chapter Six. Satire, Drama, and Censorship: Submerged Literary Circles at
the Cathedral
Chapter Seven. The Clerical Proletariat and Public Genres of the Cathedral
World: St. Erkenwald as a St. Paul's Text
Conclusion. The Poet as Public Intellectual: Achievements and
Characteristics of Proletarian Writers
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments