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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450438503321

Autore

Prendergast Thomas A (Thomas Augustine)

Titolo

Chaucer's dead body : from corpse to corpus / / Thomas A. Prendergast

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-88726-8

1-135-88727-6

0-415-96678-7

1-280-05084-5

0-203-49577-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Disciplina

821/.1

Soggetti

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Authors and readers - Great Britain - History

Criticism - Great Britain - History

Middle Ages in literature

Canon (Literature)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chaucer's Death: Two Stories, Three Mourners; Translating Chaucer: Denial and Resistance; Nineteenth- Century Necronationalism and the Chaucerian Uncanny; Beautiful Tomb/Beautiful Text; Chaucer's Stature; Secular and Sacred Pilgrimages: Chaucer's Corpse and Becket's Body; Chaucer's Tomb and Nicholas Brigham An unpublished manuscript by Laurence Tanner; Notes; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

In Chaucer's Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer's transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages.