Chaucer's early modern readers : reception in print and manuscript / Devani Singh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Devani, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Appreciation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Manuscripts, Medieval--England--History.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Modernism (Literature)--History.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

The first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period, this book focuses chiefly on fifteenth-century manuscripts and discusses how these volumes were read, used, valued, and transformed in an age of the poet's prominence in print. Each chapter argues that patterns in the material interventions made by readers in their manuscripts - correcting, completing, supplementing, and authorising - reflect conventions which circulated in print, and convey prevailing preoccupations about Chaucer in the period: the antiquity and accuracy of his words, the completeness of individual texts and of the canon, and the figure of the author himself. This unexpected and compelling evidence of the interactions between fifteenth-century manuscripts and their early modern analogues asserts print's role in sustaining manuscript culture and thus offers fresh scholarly perspectives to medievalists, early modernists, and historians of the book. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Glossing, correcting, and emending

Repairing and completing

Supplementing

Authorising

Afterword: Perfecting medieval manuscripts.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jun 2023).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009231107

1009231103

9781009231138

1009231138

9781009231121

100923112X

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access