Chaucer and His Readers : : Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England / / Seth Lerer.
Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 8 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- A NOTE ON EDITIONS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION The Subject of Chaucerian Reception
- CHAPTER ONE Writing Like the Clerk: Laureate Poets and the Aureate World
- CHAPTER TWO Reading Like the Squire: Chaucer, Lydgate, Clanvowe, and the Fifteenth-Century Anthology
- CHAPTER THREE Reading Like a Child: Advisory Aesthetics and Scribal Revision in the Canterbury Tal
- CHAPTER FOUR The Complaints of Adam Scriveyn: John Shirley and the Canonicity of Chaucer's Short Poems
- CHAPTER FIVE At Chaucer's Tomb: Laureation and Paternity in Caxton's Criticism
- CHAPTER six Impressions of Identity: Print, Poetry, and Fame in Hawes and Skelton
- ENVOY "All pis ys said vnder correctyon"
- APPENDIX
- NOTES
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX