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Helen Cooper (literary scholar)

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The Long Fifteenth Century: Essays for Douglas Gray Counter-Romance: Civil Strife and Father-killing in the Prose Romances.
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for the humanities and social sciences. In 2016 she delivered the British Academy's Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture.
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In 1970, she married Michael Cooper, a fellow academic: he died in 2007. Together they had two daughters.
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The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare.
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Cooper, H. (1999). The Four Last Things in Chaucer and Dante: Ugolino in the House of Rumour.
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of English Language and Literature. From 2000 to 2002, she was also the president of the
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was titled "The mediaeval background of English Renaissance pastoral literature".
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Cooper, H. (2003). Chaucerian Representation; Chaucerian Poetics. In:
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The mediaeval background of English Renaissance pastoral literature
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The mediaeval background of English Renaissance pastoral literature
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Her research is in the continuity of literature across the
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Professors of Medieval and Renaissance English (Cambridge)
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by Oxford and made a Life Fellow at Magdalene College.
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Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare
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(1997). 527: 516: 419:Sir Thomas Malory: Le Morte Darthur – 398:The Structure of the Canterbury Tales. 223:Cooper was born on 6 February 1947 in 796:Fellows of University College, Oxford 663: 661: 7: 391:Pastoral: Mediaeval into Renaissance 499:"Cooper, Prof. (Elizabeth) Helen". 337:, published in 2010 as part of the 511:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.44792 458:Shakespeare and the Medieval World 335:Shakespeare and the Medieval World 25: 590:(Ph.D). The British Library Board 195:(born 6 February 1947), known as 437:New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry 267:From 1971 to 1974, Cooper was a 357:In 2001, Cooper was awarded an 306:, having been appointed to its 291:by the University of Oxford as 821:Fellows of New Hall, Cambridge 806:Fellows of the British Academy 617:"Prof Helen Cooper, Magdalene" 1: 786:Alumni of New Hall, Cambridge 374:Fellow of the British Academy 372:. In 2006, she was elected a 366:Washington and Lee University 302:In 2004, Cooper moved to the 275:. In 1978, she was elected a 233:Nottingham Girls' High School 106:Nottingham Girls' High School 642:"Recognition of Distinction" 559:"Professor Helen Cooper FBA" 376:(FBA), the United Kingdom's 316:Magdalene College, Cambridge 227:, England. Her parents were 213:Magdalene College, Cambridge 175:Magdelene College, Cambridge 781:British literary historians 847: 407:, Oxford University Press. 281:University College, Oxford 171:University College, Oxford 754: 741: 733: 728: 653:Oxford University Gazette 623:. University of Cambridge 310:. She was also elected a 180: 92: 669:"Professor Helen Cooper" 647:24 February 2018 at the 430:New Medieval Literatures 219:Early life and education 27:British literary scholar 18:Helen Cooper (professor) 811:Writers from Nottingham 748:University of Cambridge 721:The New Chaucer Society 588:E-Thesis Online Service 453:Oxford University Press 414:Oxford University Press 304:University of Cambridge 205:University of Cambridge 580:Cooper, E. H. (1971). 269:junior research fellow 187:Elizabeth Helen Cooper 154:Renaissance literature 449:Cooper, H. (2004). 421:Winchester Manuscript 333:. Her latest book is 417:Cooper, H. (1998). 396:Cooper, H. (1983). 389:Cooper, H. (1978). 289:Title of Distinction 285:University of Oxford 698:The British Academy 561:. Magdalene College 456:Cooper, H. (2010). 403:Cooper, H (1996) 312:professorial fellow 297:New Chaucer Society 273:New Hall, Cambridge 241:New Hall, Cambridge 167:New Hall, Cambridge 149:Medieval literature 118:New Hall, Cambridge 97:Academic background 621:Faculty of English 364:(DLitt) degree by 320:Professor Emeritus 253:Jack A. W. Bennett 764: 763: 755:Succeeded by 729:Academic offices 526:Missing or empty 362:Doctor of Letters 339:Arden Shakespeare 239:. 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Helen Cooper (professor)
FBA
Nottingham
literary critic
Nottingham Girls' High School
Alma mater
New Hall, Cambridge
Thesis
Medieval literature
Renaissance literature
New Hall, Cambridge
University College, Oxford
Magdelene College, Cambridge
FBA
Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English
University of Cambridge
fellow
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Nottingham
Percy Edward Kent
Nottingham Girls' High School
private school
New Hall, Cambridge
Master of Arts
supervisors
Jack A. W. Bennett
doctoral thesis
junior research fellow
New Hall, Cambridge
fellow

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