Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England

L. Carruthers, R. Chai-Elsholz, Tatjana Silec

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Witnesses to the disappearance of a text, palimpsest manuscripts bear the marks of their own genesis, with their original inscription rubbed out and written over on the same parchment. This collection explores analogies of erasure and rewriting observed in editorial and literary practices underlying the production of texts from medieval England.

ISBN-13
9781349286447
ISBN-10
1349286443
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
Publication date
2011-03-31
Pages
267
Dimensions
229x152x