Who is buried in Chaucer's tomb? : studies in the reception of Chaucer's book / Joseph A. Dane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dane, Joseph A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Literature publishing.

Manuscripts, Medieval--England--Editing.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Manuscripts, English (Middle)--Editing.

Manuscripts, English (Middle).

Paleography, English.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism, Textual.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Bibliography.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62895-224-5

0-87013-907-X

OCLC:

301094956