The Monument and the Margin

Author / Editor
Kendrick, Laura.

Title
The Monument and the Margin

Published
South Atlantic Quarterly 91 (1992): 835-64

Description
Writing fixes texts, inviting marginal explication and commentary. Dante, Boccaccio, Deschamps, Langland, Gower, and Chaucer annotate their own texts to "authorize" them, although modern scholarship has been reluctant to accept glosses as "original."

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.