English Gothic Literature. - BREWER, DEREK
KORTE INHOUD
The centuries between 1100 and 1500 were the crucible in which English language and literature, after the blow of the Norman Conquest, were reformed with results that affected all later times. The national language and literary culture were reconstructed influences. The medieval centuries present a fascinating success story of recovery, inventiveness and major achievement in all aspects of national life. In literature, lyric verse, narrative poetry, drama and discursive prose were all established in characteristic modes. In the present book many works are discussed, while such masterpieces as the works of Chaucer, Langland's Piers Plowman, the poems of the Gawain-poet and Malory's Morte Darthur are shown as the secular equivalent in words of the great medieval Gothic cathedrals. The forms of this varied body of literature had as characteristic a period style as contemporary Gothic art and architecture themselves. English literature may equally be described as Gothic, with assumptions and achievements which bo...
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Original publisher's sewn paperback, title spine and frontcover, 8vo: 316pp., 19 illustrations, notes, bibliography, chronological table, index.Very fine copy. MacMillan History of Literature. London-Basingstoke, The MacMillan Press Ltd 1983 [Auteur: BREWER, DEREK] [Jaar: 1983] [Titel: English Gothic Literature.]
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Original publisher's sewn paperback, title spine and frontcover, 8vo: 316pp. 19 illustrations, notes, bibliography, chronological table, index. MacMillan History of Literature. London-Basingstoke, The MacMillan Press Ltd 1983 [Auteur: BREWER, DEREK] [Jaar: 1983] [Titel: English Gothic Literature.]
