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The art of allusion : illuminators and the making of English literature, 1403-1476
- Title
- The art of allusion : illuminators and the making of English literature, 1403-1476 / Sonja Drimmer.
- Author
- Drimmer, Sonja
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 19-307 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.
- Summary
- At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the development of English literary culture.0The newly enlarged scale of English manuscript production generated a problem: namely, a need for new images. Not only did these images need to accompany narratives that often had no tradition of illustration, they also had to express novel concepts, including ones as foundational as the identity and suitable representation of an English poet. In devising this new corpus, manuscript artists harnessed visual allusion as a method to articulate central questions and provide at times conflicting answers regarding both literary and cultural authority.
- Series Statement
- Material texts
- Uniform Title
- Material texts.
- Subject
- 1100-1500
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval > England
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, English > 15th century
- English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
- English literature > Middle English
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- England
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-309) and index.
- Call Number
- JFF 19-307
- ISBN
- 9780812250497
- 0812250494
- LCCN
- 2018004665
- OCLC
- 1028584113
- Author
- Drimmer, Sonja, author.
- Title
- The art of allusion : illuminators and the making of English literature, 1403-1476 / Sonja Drimmer.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Material textsMaterial texts.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-309) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1100-1500
- Research Call Number
- JFF 19-307