{"product_id":"last-words-sebastian-sobecki-9780198790785","title":"Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England","description":"No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and manuscripts presuppose familiarity with their authorial or scribal maker.\u003cem\u003e Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to recover this familiarity and understand the literary motivation behind some of most important fifteenth-century texts and authors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eLast Words \u003c\/em\u003ecaptures the public selves of such social authors when they attempt to extract themselves from the context of a lived life. Driven by archival research and literary inquiry, this book reveals where John Gower kept the Trentham manuscript in his final years, how John Lydgate wished to be remembered, and why Thomas Hoccleve wrote his best-known work, the \u003cem\u003eSeries\u003c\/em\u003e. It includes documentary breakthroughs and archival discoveries, and introduces a new life record for Hoccleve, identifies the author of a significant political poem, and reveals the handwriting of John Gower and George Ashby. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough its investments in archival study, book history, and literary criticism, \u003cem\u003eLast Words\u003c\/em\u003e charts the extent to which medieval English literature was shaped by the social selves of their authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sebastian Sobecki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198790783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198790785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.60d","brand":"Sebastian Sobecki","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44920022139135,"sku":"9780198790785","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_15d0207e-53d4-42d5-8415-add9080e64dd.jpg?v=1710359996","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/last-words-sebastian-sobecki-9780198790785","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}