1st Edition

Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe

Edited By Gerd Bayer, Ebbe Klitgard Copyright 2011
270 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
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This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer’s influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of the formation of early modern prose narratives. Essays focus on how a sense of selfness or subjectivity begins to establish itself in various... Read more

Selected Contents:  Introduction,  Ebbe Klitgård and Gerd Bayer  Part 1: The Growing Sense of Self  1. The Encoding of Subjectivity in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale and Pardoner’s Tale, Ebbe Klitgård  2. The Representation of Thought from Chaucer to Aphra Behn,  Monika Fludernik  3. Writing Selves: Early Modern Life Writing and the Genesis of the Novel, Miriam Nandi  Part 2: The Force of Intertextuality  4. Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls and His Pre-Text of Narration,William Quinn, William Quinn  5. From Hell: A Mirror for Magistrates and the Late Elizabethan Female Complaint, Anna Swärdh  6. Telling Tales: the Artistry of Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania, Rahel Orgis  7. The Early English Novel in Antwerp: The Impact of Jan van Doesborch, Robert Maslen  Part 3: The Consolidation of Genre  8. Narrative and Poesis: Defoe, Ovid, and Transformative Writing, Gabrielle Starr  9. The Prenovel: Theory and the Archive, Goran Stanivukovic  10. Paratext and Genre: Making Seventeenth-Century Readers, Gerd Bayer  Part 4: The Presence of Social Discourses  11. Narrative and Gossip in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Neil Cartlidge  12. Transubstantiation, Transvestism, and the Transformative Power of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, Christina Wald

Biography

Gerd Bayer is Senior Lecturer in the English department at Erlangen University, Germany.

Ebbe Klitgard is Associate Professor of British Studies at Roskilde University.