Reading Nobility: Authority and Early English Print.
- Author / Editor
- Stewart, Vaughn.
Reading Nobility: Authority and Early English Print.
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International A77.11 (2017): n.p.
- Description
- Examines "the paratextual, literary, historical, and physical ways print books serve as brokers of authority," including discussion of how William Caxton, in his editions of Chaucer, "inaugurates the printer as a necessary intermediary between the reader and a spiritually authentic Chaucer" and "instantiates printers as necessary mediators who provide readers an authentic, vivid, and accessible Chaucer."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations