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The Impetus of Amateur Scholarship
Monica Santini
其他書名
Discussing and Editing Medieval Romances in Late-eighteenth and Nineteenth-century Britain
出版
Peter Lang
, 2010
主題
Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language
History / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Modern / General
History / Social History
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / Books & Reading
Literary Criticism / Medieval
Reference / General
ISBN
3034303289
9783034303286
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zwJW2PvMoPAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Three quarters of what is now considered the corpus of Middle English romances were recovered and edited between the 1760s and the 1860s by a handful of dilettante scholars (from Thomas Percy to Frederick J. Furnivall) whose progress in the understanding of the texts and of the time in which they were written follows paths very different from those of modern textual and philological analysis. The present volume describes and discusses more than one hundred primary sources (collections, editions, dissertations, and marginal writings such as glosses and introductions) in order to provide a picture of the infancy of the study of medieval romance in Britain.
The volume is arranged as a chronological review of the amateur scholars and their editorial and critical practices and it was conceived as a reference book, providing a complete list of the romances edited in the period considered and information about single texts and their manuscript and printed versions. The author offers a picture of the first steps towards the gradual rehabilitation of a genre that had been despised for more than two centuries and its inclusion in the literary canon. Her discussion illuminates several aspects of the transmission and reshaping of the medieval culture in the nineteenth century and constitutes a contribution to the desideratum of a history of medieval studies.