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A Handbook of Middle English Studies Wiley-BlackwellCriticalTheoryHandbooks Each volume in the Critical Theory Handbooks series features a collection of newly-commissioned essays exploring the use of contemporary critical theory in the study of a given period, and the ways in which the period serves as a site for interrogating and reframing the practices of modern scholars and theorists. The volumesareorganizedaroundasetofkeytermsthatdemonstratetheengagement by literary scholars with current critical trends, and aim to increase the visibility of theoretically-oriented and -informed work in literary studies, both within the disciplineandtostudentsandscholarsinotherareas. Published: AHandbookofRomanticismStudies EditedbyJoelFaflakandJuliaM.Wright AHandbookofAnglo-SaxonStudies EditedbyJacquelineStodnickandRene´eR.Trilling AHandbookofMiddleEnglishStudies EditedbyMarionTurner Forthcoming: AHandbookofModernismStudies EditedbyJean-MichelRabate´ A Handbook of Middle English Studies Edited by Marion Turner A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication Thiseditionfirstpublished2013 ©2013JohnWiley&SonsLtd Wiley-BlackwellisanimprintofJohnWiley&Sons,formedbythemergerofWiley’sglobal Scientific,TechnicalandMedicalbusinesswithBlackwellPublishing. RegisteredOffice JohnWiley&SonsLtd,TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester,WestSussex,PO198SQ, UK EditorialOffices 350MainStreet,Malden,MA02148-5020,USA 9600GarsingtonRoad,Oxford,OX42DQ,UK TheAtrium,SouthernGate,Chichester,WestSussex,PO198SQ,UK Fordetailsofourglobaleditorialoffices,forcustomerservices,andforinformationabout howtoapplyforpermissiontoreusethecopyrightmaterialinthisbookpleaseseeour websiteatwww.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell. 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Typesetin10.5/13ptMinionbyLaserwordsPrivateLimited,Chennai,India. 12013 ForCeciliaandPeter Contents Acknowledgments xi NotesonContributors xiii Abbreviations xvii ListofFigures xix Introduction 1 MarionTurner Part1: SelfhoodandCommunity 13 1 Imagination 15 AranyeFradenburg 2 Memory 33 AnkeBernau 3 Desire 49 ElizabethScala 4 Gender 63 NicolaMcDonald 5 Sexuality 77 GlennBurgerandStevenF.Kruger 6 PublicInteriorities 93 DavidLawton 7 Race 109 JeffreyJeromeCohen viii Contents 8 Animality 123 SusanCrane Part2: ConstructingTexts,ConstructingTextualHistory 135 9 Authorship 137 VincentGillespie 10 Audience 155 JoyceColeman 11 Manuscript 171 AlexandraGillespie 12 MaterialCulture 187 JessicaBrantley 13 Genre 207 JulieOrlemanski 14 Aesthetics 223 MauraNolan 15 CanonFormation 239 ThomasA.Prendergast 16 Periodization 253 DavidMatthews Part3: PoliticsandPlaces 267 17 Sovereignty 269 RobertMills 18 Class 285 IsabelDavis 19 Church 299 LauraVarnam 20 City 315 JonathanHsy 21 Margins 331 CorinneSaunders 22 Ecology 347 CarolynDinshaw 23 Nation 363 KathyLavezzo Contents ix 24 Language 379 LauraAshe 25 Postcolonialism 397 JohnM.Ganim 26 AGlobalMiddleAges 413 GeraldineHeng Index 431 Acknowledgments Manythankstoallthecontributorsforembracingthisprojectwithsuchenthusiasm anddiligence;your essayshaveinspired meand changedmy mindinallkindsof ways. Thanks also to Emma Bennett, for commissioning the book, to the rest of the team at Wiley-Blackwell, and to the insightful anonymous readers. I want to thankmycolleagues and particularly my studentsat Jesus and Oriel colleges,and attheEnglishFacultyattheUniversityofOxford.Iamalsogratefultomyparents, DavidandSheelagh,andtomyfriendsfortheirsupportandinterestinmywork. Elliothasbeen,asever,mygreatestsupportandmostastuteadvisor,alwayspatient, encouraging,andgenuinelyinterestedintheproject–I’mverygratefulforhiscalm presenceinmylife.Thisbookgestatedandcameintobeingatthesametimeasmy children;muchoftheworkforitwasdoneintherareoccasionswhentheyslept,so thisbookisforthem. Notes on Contributors LauraAsheisUniversityLectureratWorcesterCollege,Oxford.AuthorofFiction and History in England, 1066–1200 (2007), and coeditor of The Exploitations of MedievalRomance(2010),sheisnowwritingtheOxfordEnglishLiteraryHistory, vol.1:1000–1350. AnkeBernauisSeniorLecturerinMedievalLiteratureandCultureattheUniversity ofManchester.SheistheauthorofVirgins:ACulturalHistory(2007),andiscurrently workingonliterarinessandforgettinginthefifteenthandsixteenthcenturies. Jessica Brantley is Associate Professor of English at Yale University. She is the author of Reading in the Wilderness: Public Performance and Private Devotion in Late-MedievalEngland(2007). GlennBurgerisProfessorofEnglishandMedievalStudiesatQueensCollegeand the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Chaucer’s Queer Nation (2003) and is completing a book on conduct literature, titled The AffectiveContract. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. His research includesthehistoryofmonsters,postcolonialtheory,hybridity,andtheinhuman. Joyce Coleman teaches in the English Department, University of Oklahoma. Her work on late medieval literary reception, performance, and patronage includes PublicReadingandtheReadingPublicinLateMedievalEnglandandFrance(2005) andmanyarticles.
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