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Autore |
Dane Joseph A |
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Titolo |
Who is buried in Chaucer's tomb? [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the reception of Chaucer's book / / Joseph A. Dane |
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East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-62895-224-5 |
0-87013-907-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
Manuscripts, Medieval - England - Editing |
Manuscripts, English (Middle) - Editing |
Paleography, English |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Who is Buried in Chaucer's Tomb?; Chapter 2: Who Wrote Chaucer's Workes? : The Authority of [William Thynne?]; Chapter 3: Toward a Typographical History of Chaucer: The Blackletter Chaucer; Chapter 4: The Book and the Text: Two Studies on the Testament of Love; Chapter 5: [Chaucer's] Retraction and the Eighteenth-Century History of Printing; Chapter 6: The Reception of Chaucer's Eighteenth-Century Editors; Chapter 7: The Book and the Booklet; Chapter 8: Unbooking Chaucer: The Drama of Chaucer the Persona |
Chapter 9: Problems of Evidence in Modern Chaucer EditionsChapter 10: Scribes as Critics; Conclusion: Chaucerus Noster and the Fine Press Chaucer; Notes; Works Cited |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Joseph A. Dane examines the history of the books we now know as ""Chaucer's""-a history that includes printers and publishers, editors, antiquarians, librarians, and book collectors. The Chaucer at issue here is not a medieval poet, securely bound within his fourteenth-century context, but rather the product of the often chaotic history of the physical books that have been produced and marketed in his name. This history involves a series of myths about Chaucer-a reformist |
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