Who is buried in Chaucer's tomb? [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the reception of Chaucer's book / / Joseph A. Dane
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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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| Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c1998 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 821/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature publishing - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
| Manuscripts, Medieval - England - Editing | |
| Manuscripts, English (Middle) - Editing | |
| Paleography, English | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Chaucer, a realist Chaucer, a political and critical Chaucer who seems oddly like us. It also involves more self |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Who is buried in Chaucer's tomb |
| ISBN: | 1-62895-224-5 |
| 0-87013-907-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811910703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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