The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History, 1532-1635

Author / Editor
Cook, Megan L.

Title
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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