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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cook, Megan L. (Megan Leigh), 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Edition:1st edition.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation > History.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Influence.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Antiquarians > England > History > 16th century.
Antiquarians > England > History > 17th century.
Medievalism > England > History > 16th century.
Medievalism > England > History > 17th century.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Médiévisme > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Médiévisme > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Civilisation médiévale dans la littérature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Antiquarians
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
English literature > Early modern
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Medievalism
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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