William Revere
Biographic Data
| ID | 1038697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Revere |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Revere |
| SIGNATURE | REVERE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Medieval Futures and the Postwork Romance
This essay explores speculative resources in the premodern past as displayed in some contemporary anglophone fiction, with a focus on novels by Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood. Among its retrievals, speculative medievalism offers a critical vantage point on ruinous, "neofeudal" futures by fashioning a form of romance narrative centered on workers. The late-fourteenth century English poem Piers Plowman is looked to as a premodern speculative pr…
The Conditions of Mercy
This article examines John Bunyan’s relationship to traditions of representing labor reaching back before the Reformation, from Piers Plowman and its imitators through to a range of “plowman” satires, complaints, and reformist dialogues in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Bunyan’s provocative rejection of the virtues of labor in part one of The Pilgrim’s Progress brings together theological convictions about justification by faith with a …
Advise or Consent
This essay explores the politics of conscience in the anonymous early fifteenth-century English poem Mum and the Sothsegger. Holding a prominent place in what critics have called the “Piers Plowman tradition,” Mum is also often looked to as evidence of a growing literate voice in late medieval English religion and politics. The poem itself diagnoses English society as captive to “Mum” or self-interested quietism, and it champions an ethic of trut…
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Advise or Consent
This essay explores the politics of conscience in the anonymous early fifteenth-century English poem Mum and the Sothsegger. Holding a prominent place in what critics have called the “Piers Plowman tradition,” Mum is also often looked to as evidence of a growing literate voice in late medieval English religion and politics. The poem itself diagnoses English society as captive to “Mum” or self-interested quietism, and it champions an ethic of trut…
The Conditions of Mercy
This article examines John Bunyan’s relationship to traditions of representing labor reaching back before the Reformation, from Piers Plowman and its imitators through to a range of “plowman” satires, complaints, and reformist dialogues in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Bunyan’s provocative rejection of the virtues of labor in part one of The Pilgrim’s Progress brings together theological convictions about justification by faith with a …
Medieval Futures and the Postwork Romance
This essay explores speculative resources in the premodern past as displayed in some contemporary anglophone fiction, with a focus on novels by Octavia Butler and Margaret Atwood. Among its retrievals, speculative medievalism offers a critical vantage point on ruinous, "neofeudal" futures by fashioning a form of romance narrative centered on workers. The late-fourteenth century English poem Piers Plowman is looked to as a premodern speculative pr…
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