The Afterlife of Middle English Literature

David Matthews

doi:10.1002/9781444308310.ch11

The Afterlife of Middle English Literature

English and American Studies

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature\|A Concise Companion to Middle Engl. Lit.
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Pages	232-252
Number of pages	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308310.ch11
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2009

Keywords

1700-1870 - revival, turning away from models and search for alternative in something indigenous to Britain
1870 to present - expansion and consolidation
Afterlife of Middle English literature
Belief in instructive capacity of old literature - closely allied to belief in its propagandist value
Chaucer surpassing Gower and Lydgate as pre-eminent medieval English poet
Concerns about poet's now-archaic language - nevertheless, frequent
Middle English literature - appeal of the otherness of Middle English
Middle English literature and connections with current preoccupations
Seventeenth century - decline
sixteenth century survivals - level of interest in middle English literature

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