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"Recipes are not just instructions. They also embody culture, class, belief, linguistic and literary form, and even include celebrity endorsement. Medieval and early modern recipes can be short and simple but sometimes are not – sometimes they work, and sometimes they do not. They can also be remarkably performative, imaginative, and playful. These essays explore recipes 1350-1600 from a range of perspectives and are unified by an interest in the complexity and richness of these texts. This volume is the first of its kind. It presents new critical perspectives on medieval and early modern recipes, moving beyond concerns with utility to reframe recipes as part of a dynamic textual and intellectual culture. Contributors build on the sustained scholarly interest in recipes and bring fresh approaches to them. The thirteen essays explore topics including medical, culinary and domestic recipes and charms, as well as how they relate more generally to, for instance, book history, art, astrology and social practices. Collectively, the essays reveal a distinctive book culture by exploring the material forms, literary and scribal practices of recipe books. This book is a significant contribution to these areas of study, increasingly central to scholarship in recent years"--
Didactic literature, English --- English prose literature --- Formulas, recipes, etc --- Books --- History and criticism --- History
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The history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres. The primary texts, from Ælfric's homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction. The materials nonetheless differ with respect to the explicitness of their instructive purpose. Bringing together a broad range of instructional writing from the Old, Middle and Modern English periods, this collection celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Risto Hiltunen, who has successfully combined discourse-linguistic approaches with the history of English in his research, and inspired the colleagues and former students contributing to this volume.
Didactic literature, English --- English prose literature --- English language --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric --- Study and teaching. --- Germanic languages
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Historical linguistics --- English language --- Literary rhetorics --- English literature --- Didactic literature, English --- English prose literature --- Germanic languages --- History and criticism --- Rhetoric&delete& --- Study and teaching --- Rhetoric
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091 =20 --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- -Didactic literature, English (Middle) --- -English literature --- -Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- -Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Didactic literature, English --- Didactic literature, Middle English --- English didactic literature, Middle --- Middle English didactic literature --- English literature --- Christian literature, English --- Christian literature, Middle English --- English Christian literature, Middle --- Middle English Christian literature --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Criticism, Textual --- -Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- -English manuscripts (Middle) --- Medieval manuscripts --- Didactic literature, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Vernon manuscript. --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Manuscripts. --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism. --- Didactic literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) - Manuscripts. --- Didactic literature, English (Middle) - Manuscripts. --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) - History.
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This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between extremes: courage, for example, as opposed to cowardice or recklessness. By uncovering the enormous variety of English responses to this ethical doctrine, Joshua Scodel revises our understanding of the vital interaction between classical thought and early modern literary culture. Scodel argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Through close readings of diverse writers and genres, he shows that conflicting representations of means and extremes figured prominently in the emergence of a self-consciously modern English culture. Donne, for example, reshaped the classical mean to promote individual freedom, while Bacon held extremism necessary for human empowerment. Imagining a modern rival to ancient Rome, georgics from Spenser to Cowley exhorted England to embody the mean or lauded extreme paths to national greatness. Drinking poetry from Jonson to Rochester expressed opposing visions of convivial moderation and drunken excess, while erotic writing from Sidney to Dryden and Behn pitted extreme passion against the traditional mean of conjugal moderation. Challenging his predecessors in various genres, Milton celebrated golden means of restrained pleasure and self-respect. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Scodel suggests how early modern treatments of means and extremes resonate in present-day cultural debates.
Didactic literature, English --- English literature --- Ethics in literature. --- Literature and society --- Moderation in literature. --- Polarity in literature. --- Temperance in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Classical influences. --- History --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Civilization, Classical
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Natural law, whether grounded in human reason or divine edict, encourages men to follow virtue and shun vice. The concept dominated Renaissance thought, where its literary equivalent, poetic justice, underpinned much of the period's creative writing. R. S. White's study examines a wide range of Renaissance texts, by More, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare and Milton, in the light of these developing ideas of Natural Law. It shows how writers as radically different as Aquinas and Hobbes formulated versions of Natural Law which served to maintain socially established hierarchies. For Aquinas, Natural Law always resided in the individual's conscience, whereas Hobbes thought individuals had limited access to virtue and therefore needed to be coerced into doing good by the state. White shows how the very flexibility and antiquity of Natural Law enabled its appropriation and application by thinkers of all political persuasions in a debate that raged throughout the Renaissance and which continues in our own time.
English literature --- Didactic literature, English --- Natural law --- Natural law in literature. --- Renaissance --- Law of nature (Law) --- Natural rights --- Nature, Law of (Law) --- Rights, Natural --- Law --- History and criticism. --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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"While many scholars find the early modern triad of virtues for women--silence, chastity, and obedience--to be straightforward and nonnegotiable, Jessica C. Murphy demonstrates that these virtues were by no means as direct and inflexible as they might seem. Drawing on the literature of the period--from the plays of Shakespeare to a conduct manual written for a princess to letters from a wife to her husband--as well as contemporary gender theory and philosophy, she uncovers the multiple meanings of behavioral expectations for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women. Through her renegotiation of cultural ideals as presented in both literary and nonliterary texts of early modern England, Murphy presents models for "acceptable" women's conduct that lie outside of the rigid prescriptions of the time. Virtuous Necessity will appeal to readers interested in early modern English literature, including canonical authors such as Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, as well as their female contemporaries such as Amelia Lanyer and Elizabeth Cary. It will also appeal to scholars of conduct literature; of early modern drama, popular literature, poetry, and prose; of women's history; and of gender theory"--
English literature --- Women and literature --- Women --- Conduct of life in literature. --- Virtue in literature. --- Social values in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Didactic literature, English --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Conduct of life.
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Blake, William --- Didactic literature, English --- Philosophy in literature --- History and criticism --- Blake, William, --- Philosophy --- Philosophy in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Blake, W. --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Блейк, Уильям, --- Blake, William, 1757-1827 --- Philosophie. --- Sake, William. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- Didactic literature, English - History and criticism --- Blake, William, - 1757-1827 - Philosophy --- Blake, William, - 1757-1827
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Didactic literature, English --- Arthurian romances --- Romances, English --- Knights and knighthood in literature --- Kings and rulers in literature --- Conduct of life in literature --- Social ethics in literature --- History and criticism --- Malory, Thomas, --- -Conduct of life in literature --- -Kings and rulers in literature --- -Social ethics in literature --- English romances --- English literature --- English didactic literature --- Romances --- Malory, Thomas Sir --- Didactic literature, English - History and criticism --- Arthurian romances - History and criticism --- Romances, English - History and criticism --- Malory, Thomas, - Sir, - active 15th century - Morte d'Arthur
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"While many scholars have explored the ways nineteenth-century critics expressed their anxiety about the dangers of women's unregulated and implicitly uncritical reading practices, which were believed to threaten the sanctity of the home and the cultural status of the nation, Phegley argues that family literary magazines revolutionized the position of women as consumers of print by characterizing them as educated readers and able critics. Further, Phegley demonstrates the role these publications played in improving cultural literacy among women of the middle classes as well as the interplay between fiction and essays of the time by writers such as Mary Braddon, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, G.H. Lewes, Harriet Martineau, Margaret Oliphant, George Sala, William Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope."--Jacket. Her analysis of images of influential women readers (in Harper's), intellectual women readers (in The Cornhill), independent women readers (in Belgravia), and proto-feminist women readers/critics (in Victoria) indicates that women played a significant role in determining the boundaries of literary culture within these magazines. She argues that these publications supported women's reading choices, inviting them to define literary culture rather than to consume it passively." "Not only does this book revise our understanding of nineteenth-century attitudes toward women readers, but is also takes a fresh look at the transatlantic context of literary production.
American literature --- American literature. --- Didactic literature, English --- Didactic literature, English. --- English literature --- English literature. --- Familienzeitschrift. --- Frauenbild. --- Geschichte 1850-1871. --- Leserin. --- Literature publishing --- Literature publishing. --- Middle class women --- Periodicals --- Women and literature --- Women and literature. --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Books and reading --- Books and reading. --- Publishing --- Publishing. --- 1800-1899. --- English-speaking countries. --- Great Britain. --- Großbritannien. --- United States. --- Literature --- Journals (Periodicals) --- Magazines --- Library materials --- Mass media --- Serial publications --- Newspapers --- Press --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry
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