Title Writing the north of England in the middle ages : regionalism and nationalism in medieval English literature / Joseph Taylor, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 254 pages) Series Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 119 Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 119. Contents Introduction : Region and Nation in England's North-South Divide -- William of Malmesbury, Bede, and the Problem of the North -- The North-South Divide in the Medieval English Universities -- Chaucer's Northern Consciousness in the Reeve's Tale -- Centralization, Resistance, and the North of England in A Gest of Robyn Hode -- The Towneley Plays, the Pilgrimage of Grace, and Northern Messianism -- Conclusion : A Medieval and Modern North-South Divide Summary "Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages offers a literary history of the North-South divide, examining the complexities of the relationship - imaginative, material, and political - between North and South in a wide range of texts. Through sustained analysis of the North-South divide as it emerges in the literature of medieval England, this study illustrates the convoluted dynamic of desire and derision of the North by the rest of the country. Joseph Taylor dissects England's problematic sense of nationhood as one which must be negotiated and renegotiated from within, rather than beyond, national borders. Providing fresh readings of texts such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the fifteenth-century Robin Hood ballads, and the Towneley plays, this book argues for the North's vital contribution to processes of imagining nation in the Middle Ages and shows that that regionalism is both contained within and constitutive of its apparent opposite, nationalism"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2022) Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism Regionalism in literature. National characteristics, English, in literature. English literature -- Middle English Literature National characteristics, English, in literature Regionalism in literature SUBJECT England, Northern -- In literature Subject Northern England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2022046584 ISBN 9781009182102 1009182102

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