Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-vii

List of Contributors

pp viii-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Note on Quotations

pp xi-xi

List of Abbreviations

pp xii-xiv

Introduction: Hoccleve Then and Now

pp 1-22

Part I - Form in Context

pp 23-24

1 - Historicising Hoccleve’s Metre

pp 25-46

2 - Speech Acts and Conversation in the Series

pp 47-64

3 - Hoccleve and the Logic of Incompleteness

pp 65-84

4 - A ‘troubly dreme drempt al in wakynge’: Hoccleve’s Nearly-Dream Poem

pp 85-102

Part II - Reading Life

pp 103-104

5 - Hoccleve’s Series and the Unanticipated Woman Reader

pp 105-123

6 - Hoccleve, Swelling and Bursting

pp 124-141

7 - ‘Ransakid’ by Death: Body, Soul and Image in Hoccleve’s ‘Learn to Die’

pp 142-164

Part III - Writing Life

pp 165-166

8 - Hoccleve’s Formulary and the Matter of Everyday Life

pp 167-196

9 - Hoccleve’s Feet: The Kinaesthetic Imaginary in Hoccleve’s Writing

pp 197-214

10 - Curatorial Hoccleve: Spiritual and Codicological Illumination in the Regiment of Princes

pp 215-229

11 - Reading Through: Major/Minor Hoccleve

pp 230-248

Index

pp 249-254