Chaucer and His Readers: Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England

by Seth Lerer

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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, and printers of the period constructed Chaucer as the "poet laureate" and "father" of English verse. Chaucer appears throughout the fifteenth century as an adviser...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691029237

ISBN13:9780691029238

Release Date:December 1996

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Ancient & Classical Literature Books & Reading Criticism & Theory History & Criticism History of Books Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Medieval Movements & Periods

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