Title The poet and the antiquaries : Chaucerian scholarship and the rise of literary history, 1532-1635 / Megan L. Cook

Edition 1st edition Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover; Contents; A Note on Spelling and Punctuation; Introduction. "Only by Thy Books": Knowing Chaucer in Early Modern England; Chapter 1. The First First Folios: Chaucer's Works in Print; Chapter 2. "Noster Galfridus": Chaucer's Early Modern Biographies; Chapter 3. "For Every Man to Read That Is Disposed": Chaucer the Proto-Protestant; Chapter 4. "Difficulties Opened": Confronting Chaucer's Archaism in Spenser and the 1598/1602 Works; Chapter 5. Chaucer's Herald: The Work of Francis Thynne; Chapter 6. Chaucer's Scholarly Readers in Seventeenth-Century England Coda. Chaucer in the House of Fame; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments Summary In The Poet and the Antiquaries, Megan L. Cook explores how early modern historians, lexicographers, religious polemicists, and other readers with extra-literary interests in the English past made Chaucer a figure of lasting cultural significance Notes "Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 14, 2019) Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Influence SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Antiquarians -- England -- History -- 16th century Antiquarians -- England -- History -- 17th century Medievalism -- England -- History -- 16th century Medievalism -- England -- History -- 17th century Civilization, Medieval, in literature. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Antiquarians Civilization, Medieval, in literature English literature -- Early modern Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Medievalism England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812295825 081229582X

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