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