Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fiction.
- Author / Editor
- Da Rold, Orietta.
Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fiction.
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xx, 270 pp.
- Series
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, no. 112.
- Description
- Rethinks the uses and "affordances" of paper in medieval England and on the Continent, i.e., its potentialities, manifestations, and material significations in book production and other cultural practices. Opens with an explanation of how Chaucer associates paper with Dido in LGW, 1198-202, changing his source in Virgil, and evoking emotion and majesty. Chapter 5, "Paper in the Medieval Literary Imagination," focuses in part on the "interplay" of TC and its sources insofar as "their comments on the material properties of writing-supports is evidence of paper's wider cultural acceptance."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations