Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century

This collection re-evaluates the work of fifteenth-century poet John Lydgate in light of medieval material culture. Top scholars in the field unite here with critical newcomers to offer fresh perspectives on the function of poetry on the cusp of the modern age, and in particular on the way that poetry speaks to the heightened relevance of material goods and possessions to the formation of late medieval identity and literary taste. Advancing in provocative ways the emerging fields of fifteenth-century literary and cultural study, the volume as a whole explores the role of the aesthetic not only in late medieval society but also in our own.

Author: L. Cooper
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/09/2008
Pages: 223
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9781349537365

About the Author

LISA H. COOPER is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
ANDREA DENNY BROWN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California-Riverside, USA.