Imagining inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 251775680
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198851424.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198851424
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Medieval and Renaissance
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- At 320 pages, Imagining Inheritance From Chaucer to Shakespeare' is a monograph that crosses period boundaries, bringing together materials that are often considered separately. It moves between late medieval and early modern studies, examining writing by Chaucer, Langland, Henryson, Lydgate, Spenser, Shakespeare and others to develop an argument about the centrality of inheritance to premodern culture. It then argues that premodern succession makes legible the deep structures of inherited power that continue to structure modernity, but which modernity wants to forget. OUP’s reviewer described it as ‘confirmation of the establishment of a new scholarly field (Trans-Reformation Studies)’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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