Who is Buried in Chaucer's Tomb? Studies in the Reception of Chaucer's Book
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
Who is Buried in Chaucer's Tomb? Studies in the Reception of Chaucer's Book
- Published
- East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1998.
- Physical Description
- x, 309 pp.
- Description
- Eleven studies on the publishing history of Chaucer's works attempt to correct misconceptions about the nature of book production, extant editions and issues of Chaucer's works, and the reliability of bibliographical descriptions.
- Discussion ranges from the inscription on Chaucer's tomb (a reprint of SAC 18 (1996), no.45) to modern arguments among Chaucerians about the relations between criticism and scholarship.
- Recurring topics include canon formation and apocrypha, the influence of technology on print and reception, bibliographical evidence, the eccentricities of key Chaucerians, the relations between textuality and individual books, and the historical separation of professional "Chaucerianism" from the popular reception of Chaucer.
- Includes a revised version of "The Reception of Chaucer's Eighteenth-Century Editors," Text 4 (1989):59-79. Search under essay title for summary.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.