Making Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Textuality and Reception.
- Author / Editor
- Fumo, Jamie Clire.
Making Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Textuality and Reception.
- Published
- Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- 244 pp.
- Series
- New Century Chaucer Series
- Description
- Studies the history of interpretation of BD, surveying scholarly commentary, material transmission, and late medieval/early modern creative reception. Emphasizes the (re)making of BD over time, by means of the interrelated textual processes of writing, reading, and reception modeled within the poem itself. As a work that, paradoxically, has been both marginalized and freighted with canonical import, BD impacts our understanding of Chaucerian authorship, English and French vernacularity, and the late medieval culture of book production in ways that demand fuller reckoning.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
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