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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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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 |
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Chapter 9: Problems of Evidence in Modern Chaucer EditionsChapter 10: Scribes as Critics; Conclusion: Chaucerus Noster and the Fine Press Chaucer; Notes; Works Cited |
| Summary |
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 |
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Print version record |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism, Textual
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Bibliography
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Authorship
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| SUBJECT |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
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Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Manuscripts, Medieval -- England -- Editing
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Manuscripts, English (Middle) -- Editing
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Paleography, English.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Authorship
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Literature publishing
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Manuscripts, Medieval -- Editing
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Paleography, English
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England
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Great Britain
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Bibliographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780870139079 |
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087013907X |
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