The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 1532-1635
- Author / Editor
- Cook, Megan L.
The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 1532-1635
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
- Physical Description
- ix, 288 pp.; 12 b&w illus.
- Description
- Examines how Tudor English antiquarians, including "historians, lexicographers, religious polemicists, and other readers with a professional, but, not necessary literary interest in the English past," played significant role" in the development and maintenance of Chaucer's fame and canonicity. Presents a series of case studies on Chaucer and his works in relation to sixteenth-century texts of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
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