Studying English Literature in Context, Poplawski P., 2022

Studying English Literature in Context, Poplawski P., 2022.

   Ranging from early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection explores the myriad ways in which literary texts are informed by their historical contexts. The thirty-one essays draw on varied themes and perspectives to present stimulating new readings of both canonical and non-canonical texts and authors. Written in a lively and engaging style by an international team of experts, these specially commissioned essays collectively represent an incisive contribution to literary studies; they will appeal to scholars, teachers and graduate and undergraduate students. The book is intended to complement Paul Poplawski’s previous volume, English Literature in Context, and incorporates additional study elements designed specifically with undergraduates in mind. With an extensive chronology, a glossary of critical terms and a study guide suggesting how students might learn from the essays in their own writing practices, this volume provides a rich and flexible resource for teaching and learning.




Finding The Dream of the Rood in Old English Literature.
The Old English poem we call The Dream of the Rood challenges modern assumptions about the nature of a literary text in space and time. Rene Wellek’s counterintuitive but revealing question in Theory of Literature - ‘What and where is a poem?’ - takes on new resonance in an early medieval context. One poem which we call The Dream of the Rood appears in a tenth-century manuscript called the Vercelli Book. It is a copy, made from another text now lost, and may have been copied from a copy - and perhaps rewritten along the way. A poem which is too much like The Dream of the Rood to be unrelated, yet too different to be called the same poem, is carved in runes on the sides of an early eighth-century stone monument in the village church of Ruthwell, in south-west Scotland (Figure 1.1). Yet another artefact - this one a gold reliquary cross now in Brussels, Belgium -is engraved with two lines of Old English poetry nearly identical to lines in the Vercelli and Ruthwell texts. Which is the real poem? What and where is The Dream of the Rood?

In the wider context of ancient literature, our poem does not appear especially elusive. The copy in the Vercelli Book is clear and undamaged; and though parts of the Ruthwell Cross inscription have been broken off, most of the surviving runes are intact and legible. In this our texts contrast with such poems as The Ruin, large sections of which have been burned out of the only manuscript copy we have, and even Beowulf whose manuscript has been badly damaged. Likewise, the Bewcastle Cross, a close stylistic cousin of the Ruthwell monument, has an inscription panel worn away to a bumpy sandstone plane. Moreover, unlike (say) the corpus of ancient Etruscan, Old English is well understood by modern scholars, and we can be quite confident that we know what the words in these texts mean.

CONTENTS.
List of Figures page.
Notes on Contributors.
Preface, Volume Outline and Rationale.
Acknowledgements.
Chronology.
Introduction.
Paul Poplawski.
Part I Medieval English, 500-1500.
Introductory Note.
1 Finding The Dream of the Rood in Old English Literature.
Emily V. Thornbury Critical Reflections and Further Study.
2 The Translator as Author: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Parliament of Fowls.
Filip Krajnik Critical Reflections and Further Study.
3 Arthurian Romance as a Window on to Medieval Life: The Case of Ywayne and Gawayne and The Awntyrs off Arthure.
K. S. Whetter Critical Reflections and Further Study.
Part II The Renaissance, 1485-1660.
Introductory Note 6.
4 The Renaissance in England: A Meeting Point 6.
Alessandra Petrina Critical Reflections and Further Study 8.
5 'Mr Spencer's Moral invention': The Global Horizons of.
Early Modern Epic 8.
Jane Grogan Critical Reflections and Further Study 9.
6 Arden of Faversham.
Christa Jansohn Critical Reflections and Further Study.
7 A Little Touch of Harry in the Night': Mysteries of Kingship and the Stage in Shakespeare's The Life of King Henry the Fifth.
Ina Habertnann Critical Reflections and Further Study.
8 Poems and Contexts: The Case of Henry Vaughan.
Robert Wilcher Critical Reflections and Further Study.
Part III The Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1660-1780.
Introductory Note.
9 Periodising in Context: The Case of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
Lee Morrissey Critical Reflections and Further Study.i.
10 Truth-Telling and the Representation of the Surinam 'Indians' in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.
Oddvar Holmesland Critical Reflections and Further Study.
11 'The Pamphlet on the Table': The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves.
Richard J. Jones Critical Reflections and Further Study.
Part IV The Romantic Period, 1780-1832.
Introductory Note.
12 'Transported into Asiatic Scenes': Romanticism and the Orient.
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts Critical Reflections and Further Study.
13 Historical Fiction in the Romantic Period: Jane Porter, Walter Scott and the Sublime Hero.
Fiona Price Critical Reflections and Further Studies.
14 Jane Austen and Her Publishers: Northanger Abbey and the Publishing Context of the Early Nineteenth Century.
Katie Halsey Critical Reflections and Further Study.
15 'O for a Life of Sensations' or 'the Internal and External Parts': Keats and Medical Materialism.
Paul Wright Critical Reflections and Further Study.
Part V The Victorian Age, 1832—1901.
Introductory Note.
16 Poetry and Science in the Victorian Period.
Jordan Kistler Critical Reflections and Further Study.
17 'In Characters of Tint Indelible': Life Writing and Legacy in Charlotte Bronte's Villette.
Maria Frawley Critical Reflections and Further Study.
18 Money, Narrative and Representation from Dickens to Gissing.
Ben Moore Critical Reflections and Further Study.
19 Reading and Remediating Nineteenth-Century Serial Fiction: Closing Down and Opening Up Sheridan Le Fanu's Camilla.
Fionnuala Dillane Critical Reflections and Further Study.
20 Public Places, Private Spaces in Fin-de-Sibde British Women's Writing.
Sue Asbee Critical Reflections and Further Study.
Part VI The Twentieth Century, 1901-1939.
Introductory Note.
21 D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love: An Anthropological Reading.
Stefania Michelucci Critical Reflections and Further Study.
22 The Epigraph for T. S. Eliot's Marina: Classical Tradition and the Modern Era.
Anna Budziak Critical Reflections and Further Study.
23 Passing as a Male Critic: Mary Beton's Coming of Age in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
Judith Paltin Critical Reflections and Further Study.
Part VII The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, 1939-2020.
Introductory Note.
24 An Ecocritical Reading of the Poetry of Ted Hughes.
Terry Gifford Critical Reflections and Further Study.
25 Women Publishers in the Twenty-First Century: Assessing Their Impact on New Writing - and Writers.
Catherine Riley Critical Reflections and Further Study.
26 Crisis and Community in Contemporary British Theatre.
Clare Wallace Critical Reflections and Further Study.
Part VIII Postcolonial Literature in English.
Introductory Note.
27 Complexities and Concealments of Eros in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
F. Fiona Moolla Critical Reflections and Further Study.
28 Bessie Head's Feminism of Everyday Life.
Loretta Stec Critical Reflections and Further Study.
29 The Gender Politics of Grace Nichols: Joy and Resistance.
Izabel F. O. Brandao Critical Reflections and Further Study.
30 'The All-purpose Quote’: Salman Rushdie's Metacontextuality.
Joel Kuortti Critical Reflections and Further Study.
31 Postcolonial Literature and the World, 2017-2019: Contemporary Complexities.
Ulla Rahbek Critical Reflections and Further Study.
Appendices.
Paul Poplawski.
Appendix A: Glossary of Critical Terms.
Appendix B: Study Guide: Learning from the Essays.
Appendix C: Essays Listed by Genre and Theme.
Index.



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