TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warner,Lawrence
TI  - The myth of Piers Plowman: constructing a medieval literary archive 
T2  - Cambridge studies in medieval literature
SN  - 9781107784543
AV  - PR2015 .W37 2014eb
U1  - 821/.1 23
KW  - Langland, William,
KW  - Langland, William
KW  - Piers Plowman (Langland, William)
KW  - fast
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POETRY
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Stoff
KW  - Literatur
KW  - gnd
KW  - Textkritik
KW  - sao
KW  - Författarskap
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-208) and index; Introduction: archive fever and the madness of Joseph Ritson -- William and the werewolf: the problem of William of Palerne -- Localizing Piers Plowman C: Meed, Corfe castle, and the London Riot of 1384 -- Latinitas et communitas Visionis Willielmi de Longlond -- "Quod piers plowman" : non-reformist prophecy, c.1520-1555 -- Urry, Burrell, and the pains of John Taylor: the Spelman MS, 1709-1766 -- William Dupré, fabricateur: Piers Plowman in the age of forgery, c.1794-1802 -- Conclusion: Leland's madness and the tale of Piers Plowman
N2  - "Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood"--
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338821
ER  -