L A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance

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Poets, preachers, philosophers and their audiences share the foreground in Jean Jules Jusserand's account of English writing before the Renaissance. He links literary change to the people who produced and heard it, including periods when they expressed their thoughts in languages other than English. Relations between French and English culture are a recurring concern, with the preface tracing exchanges through Norman life and earlier scholarship.

The discussion of Chaucer places his verse beside French contemporaries and the widely read Roman de la Rose. Jusserand explains the appeal of allegory, compares religious and worldly symbolism, and considers disagreements over the poem. Readers interested in medieval literature will find a history that connects books with tastes, beliefs and social life, supported by notes pointing back to original sources.

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Jean Jules Jusserand

Jean Jules Jusserand was a French diplomat, historian, and literary scholar whose long engagement with English culture informed his criticism. What to Expect of Shakespeare began as a lecture delivered to the British Academy and considers how readers and scholars might approach Shakespeare without reducing the plays to rigid formulas.