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The poet and the antiquaries : Chaucerian scholarship and the rise of literary history, 1532-1635 /

In The Poet and the Antiquaries, Megan L. Cook explores how early modern historians, lexicographers, religious polemicists, and other readers with extra-literary interests in the English past made Chaucer a figure of lasting cultural significance.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cook, Megan L. (Megan Leigh), 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Edición:1st edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; A Note on Spelling and Punctuation; Introduction. "Only by Thy Books": Knowing Chaucer in Early Modern England; Chapter 1. The First First Folios: Chaucer's Works in Print; Chapter 2. "Noster Galfridus": Chaucer's Early Modern Biographies; Chapter 3. "For Every Man to Read That Is Disposed": Chaucer the Proto-Protestant; Chapter 4. "Difficulties Opened": Confronting Chaucer's Archaism in Spenser and the 1598/1602 Works; Chapter 5. Chaucer's Herald: The Work of Francis Thynne; Chapter 6. Chaucer's Scholarly Readers in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Coda. Chaucer in the House of Fame; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments