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9780271079639 Academic Inspection Copy

Middle English Marvels

Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century
  • ISBN-13: 9780271079639
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Tara Williams
  • Price: AUD $195.00
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2018
  • Format: Hardback 184 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
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A multidisciplinary interpretation of representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances, and how these texts link magic, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. By representing supernatural marvels in vivid visual detail, these texts encourage reactions of wonder that have moral effects within and beyond the narrative.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Marvels Matter

1. Mirroring Otherworlds: Fairy Magic, Wonder, and Morality

2. Revealing Spectacles: Virtue and Identity in Fair Unknowns

3. Moving Marvels: Action and Agency in Courtly Spectacles

4. Talking Magic: Chaucer’s Spectacles of Language

Conclusion: How Marvels Matter

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“A well-written, accessible, and insightful volume, and one of clear interest to scholars of Middle English literature, particularly of romance. And it may well prove very useful, too, for teaching. . . . The value of this study is in the further speculation on texts like those discussed it stimulates, and on larger questions about language and literary tradition—and the role wonder can play in our own ethical engagement with the world.”

—Lisa M. C. Weston, Modern Philology

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