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Chaucer's Early Modern Readers - Devani Singh

Chaucer's Early Modern Readers

Reception in Print and Manuscript

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Buch | Hardcover
300 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-23111-4 (ISBN)
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This is the first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period. The book appeals to book historians and to medieval and early modern scholars and students and this title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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.

Devani Singh is an SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow at the University of Geneva, where she specialises in medieval and early modern English literature and book history. Her recent work includes a critical edition of the commonplace book Bel-vedére (with Lukas Erne, Cambridge University Press, 2020) and essays which have appeared in Book History, The Review of English Studies, The Chaucer Review, and Digital Philology.

1. Glossing, correcting, and emending; 2. Repairing and completing; 3. Supplementing; 4. Authorising.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 236 mm
Gewicht 560 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10 1-009-23111-1 / 1009231111
ISBN-13 978-1-009-23111-4 / 9781009231114
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