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The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry
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The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses...
The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses class, meritocracy, the gig economy, precarity, and the breaking of intellectual elites, speaking to both past and present employment urgencies.
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- English
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- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
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- 1 online resource (409 pages)
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- 0812252632, 9780812298017, 0812298012, 9780812252637
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- on1244624147
- Chapter Five. Cathedral Songs: Lyric Genres of the Choral Service Class and Resurgent English.
- Cover -- The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface. "Decidedly not the national language" -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. The Clericus Class, Underemployment, and the Golden Age of Middle English Poetry -- 1. The Clerical Proletariat, the Limitations of Marxist Analogy, and Resurging English Verse -- 2. Career Disappointment: Vicars, Scribes, Bureaucrats, and Singers
- 3. "The ramshackle twin engines of church and state": King's Clerks, Reluctant Careerists, and the Zenith of the Clerical Proletariat -- PART I. CLERICAL PROLETARIANS AND THE RESURGENCE OF EN GLISH POETRY: VOCATIONAL CRISIS AND SELF-REPRESENTATION -- Chapter One. Precedents for Clerical Crisis and Authorial Intervention in Early Middle English -- 1. Unfamiliar Friends: English as a "Foreign" Written Language -- 2. The Owl and the Nightingale's Portrait of the Artist as an Under-Beneficed Clerk -- 3. The Grateful Lawman: Patronage and Liminality in the Prologue to La amon's Brut
- 4. Fending Off Xenophobia: Thedmar's Authorial Intervention, "The Prisoner's Lament" and London Civic Reading Circles for the Early Lyric -- 5. Clerical Careerist Authorship, Poetic Crisis, and the Fourth Estate in Wynnere and Wastoure -- Chapter Two. Poetry of Vocational Crisis in Langland's Apologia and the Early Langlandian Tradition -- 1. Case Study 1: Hoccleve's Career Disappointment and a "Secular" Poet's Vocational Training for Pastoral Care -- 2. Case Study 2: Love in a Chantry Chaplain's Account Roll: John Tyckhill's "A Bird of Bishopswood"
- 3. Case Study 3: "White Collar" Underemployment and the Clerical Proletariat in the Z-text of Piers Plowman -- Chapter Three. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition I: Hoccleve's Missed Opportunity and Self-Portraiture in Vocational Crisis -- 1. From Disappointment to Public Pastor: Hoccleve and Langlandian Intertextuality -- 2. Langland, Hoccleve and Careerist London Literary Reading Circles -- Chapter Four. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition II: John Audelay as the Voice for a Lost Generation -- 1. John Audelay: Biography, Vocational Crisis, and Proletarian Habit of Mind
- 2. A Word About Form and the Importance of Audelay's Latin Quotations -- 3. "Pore Prevyd Clerkys": Audelay's Mission for Ecclesiological Reform in Marcolf and Solomon and the Langlandian Tradition -- 4. Competition for Benefices, Delinquent Priests, and the Question of Satire in Marcolf -- 5. Performance, "Over-skipping," and the Choral Proletariat -- 6. Postscript: Corrective Imitation of Langland, or, Audelay Steps out of Langland's Shadow -- PART II. THE LITURGICAL AND CATHEDRAL SERVICE CLASS AND RESURGENT ENGLISH VERSE
Subjects
- English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
- Clergy -- Secular employment -- England -- History -- To 1500.
- Clergy as authors -- England -- History -- To 1500.
- Working class authors -- England -- History -- To 1500.
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500.
- Clergy in literature.