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This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of poetic fiction. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that complicate received notions of the didactic Middle Ages, the sophisticated Renaissance, and the fallow fifteenth century in between.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction:Toward a Poetics of Exemplarity
- 2. Anticipating Audience in The Book of the Knight of the Tower
- 3. The Costs of Exemplary History in the Confessio A mantis
- 4. Framing Narrative in Chaucer and Lydgate
- 5. The Pardoner in the "dogges boure": Early Reception of the Canterbury Tales
- 6. Memory and Recognition in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index