The bureaucratic muse : Thomas Hoccleve and the literature of late medieval England / Ethan Knapp.

Author/creator Knapp, Ethan, 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2001.
Descriptionx, 210 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?-1450?--Criticism and interpretation.
Great Britain. Privy Council--History. --To 1500.
Literature and society--England. --History. --To 1500.
Bureaucracy--Great Britain. --History. --To 1500.
Scriptoria--England. --History. --To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.

Contents Bureaucratic identity and the construction of the self in Hoccleve's Formulary and "La male regle" -- The letter of Cupid: gender and the foundations of poetic authority -- "Wrytynge no travaille is": scribal labor in the Regement of princes -- Eulogies and usurpations: father Chaucer in the Regement of princes -- Hoccleve and heresy: image, memory and the vanishing mediator -- "Ful bukkissh is his brayn": writing, madness, and bureaucratic culture in the Series.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [187]-204) and index.
LCCN 2001021460
ISBN0271021357 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR1992.H47 Z68 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold