Medieval literary voices

Louise D'Arcens is Professor of English and Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaSif Ríkharðsdóttir is Professor of Comparative Literature and Vice-Head of the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland

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• Introduction – Louise D’Arcens and Sif Rikhardsdottir1 Articulate voices – Ruth EvansPart I: Narrative embodiment and voicing2 Voice of authority: Free indirect discourse in Chaucer’s General Prologue – Helen Fulton3 Speaking in person – Fiona SomersetPart II: Authoritative, ethical and orthodox voices4 The body speaks in The Franklin’s Tale – Mishtooni Bose5 The sensology of the moral conscience: William Peraldus’s ethical voices – Richard Newhauser6 Langland parrhesiastes – Ian CorneliusPart III: Materiality and textual voices7 Margery Kempe, the leprous woman and the voice of St Paul – Lawrence Warner8 Listening for the scribe: punctuation and the voicing of late medieval devotional literature – Sarah Noonan9 Parrot poet: Humphrey Newton and Bodleian Library, MS Lat. Misc. c. 66 – Wendy ScasePart IV: Performative voices and medieval aurality10 Voice, materiality and history in St Erkenwald and Egils saga Skallagrímssonar – Sif Ríkharðsdóttir11 Embodying the Mandevillean voice – Sarah Salih12 Reconstructing Christine de Pizan’s musical voice in the twenty-first century – Louise D’ArcensAfterword: medieval voice: a tribute to David Lawton – John M. GanimBibliographyIndex