Print culture and the medieval author : Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books, 1473-1557 / / Alexandra Gillespie

• Autore: Gillespie Alexandra
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, UK ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9001
• Soggetto topico: Printing - England - History - 16th century; Printing - England - History - Origin and antecedents; Books - History - 1450-1600; Transmission of texts - England - History
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.; Previously issued in print: 2006.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-263) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Author and the Book; 1. Caxton and Fifteenth-Century English Books; 2. Good Utterance: Printing and Innovation after 1478; 3. Assembling Chaucer's Texts in Print, 1517 to 1532; 4. Court and Cloister: Editions of Lydgate, 1509 to 1534; 5. The Press, the Medieval Author, and the English Reformations, 1534 to 1557; Afterword: At Lydgate's Tomb; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; Index of Printed Editions, Texts Ascribed to Chaucer and Lydgate, 1473-1557; General Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining hundreds of early printed books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history.
• Titolo autorizzato: Print culture and the medieval author
• ISBN: 1-383-04046-X; 1-280-75918-6; 0-19-151465-9; 1-4294-6022-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826675903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford English monographs.