- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press (31 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0271021357
- ISBN-13: 978-0271021355
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 2.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,897,030 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Long neglected as a marginal and eocentric figure, Thomas Hoccleve (1367-1426) wrote some of the most sophisticated and challenging poetry of the late Middle Ages. Full of gossip and autobiographical detail, his work has made him immensely useful to modern scholars, yet Hoccleve the poet has remained decidedly in the shadow of Geoffrey Chaucer. In The Bureaucrotic Muse, Ethari Knapp investigates the connections between Hoccleve's poetic corpus and his life as a clerk of the Privy Seal. The early fifteenth century was a watershed moment in the histories of both centralized bureaucracy and English vernacular literature. These were the decades in which Chaucer's experiments in a courtly English poetry were rendered into a stable tradition and in which the central writing offices at Westminster emerged from personal government into the full-blow modernity of independent civil service. Knapp shows the importance of Hoccleve's poetry as a site where these two histories come together. By following the shifting relationship between the texts of vernacular poetry and those of bureaucratic documents.Knapp argues that the roots of vernacular fiction reach back into the impersonal documentary habits of a bureaucratic class. The Bureaucratic Muse, the First full-length study of Hoccleve since 1968, provides an authoritative historical and textual treatment of this important but underappreciated writer. Chapters focus on Hoccleve's importance in consolidating key concepts of the literary field such as autobiography, religious heterodoxy, gendered identity and post-chaucer textuality. This book will be of interest to scnolars of Middle English literature, autobiography, gender studies, and the history of literary institutions.
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This review is from: The Bureaucratic Muse: Thomas Hoccleve and the Literature of Late Medieval England (Hardcover)
I found this book to be of invaluable help when studying Hoccleve - the significant light shed on the bureaucratic side to Hoccleve's world allows his works to be understood and read in a new dimension. The appended lists of detailed incoming and outgoing payments to and from Hoccleve was particularly useful. Not only has Knapp provided his readers with some very in-depth factual research, but the book itself is written in a well-structured and interesting manner.
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