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Ethics and eventfulness in Middle English literature

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ethics and eventfulness in Middle English literatureJ. Allan Mitchell.
Author:	Mitchell, J. Allan
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2009.
Description:	xiv, 187 p. ;22 cm.
Subject:	English literatureHistory and criticism.Middle English, 1100-1500
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230620728

Ethics and eventfulness in Middle English literature
Mitchell, J. Allan1971-

Ethics and eventfulness in Middle English literature[electronic resource] /J. Allan Mitchell. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xiv, 187 p. ;22 cm. - The new Middle Ages. - New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182) and index.

On fortune, philosophy, and fidelity to the event -- Love and ethicsto come in Troilus and Criseyde -- Consolations of Pandarus : The testament of love and The chaunce of the dyse -- Gower's Confessio amantis and the nature of vernacular ethics -- Telling fortunes in Lydgate's Fall of princes-- Moral luck and Malory's Morte Darthur.

Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider thesecontingencies inrelation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic accidents, and the textual condition itself - locating in fortune the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230620728

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230620728doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

191215
English literature
--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR275.E77 / M58 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 420.9/384

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