Morris's Compromises: On Victorian Editorial Theory and the Kelmscott Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- LaPorte, Charles.
Morris's Compromises: On Victorian Editorial Theory and the Kelmscott Chaucer
- Published
- David Latham, ed. Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 209-19.
- Physical Description
- 6 b&w illus.
- Description
- Morris's decision to present Chaucer's works in "clear-text" format (without editorial apparatus) conflicts with Victorian theories of editing. Yet, his presentations of Ret and the envoy to TC belie his efforts to imitate medieval traditions.
- Contributor
- Latham, David, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Chaucer's Retraction
- Troilus and Criseyde