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J. Mitchell
Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature

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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 these contingencies in relation 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.

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Table of Content

Introduction: Conceptial Personae On Fortune, Philosophy and Fidelity to the Event Love and Ethics to 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 d’arthur

About the author

J. ALLAN MITCHELL is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 187 ● ISBN 9780230620728 ● File size 3.8 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4991683 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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