Chaucer’s Early Modern Readers: Reception in Print and Manuscript.
- Author / Editor
- Singh, Devani.
Chaucer’s Early Modern Readers: Reception in Print and Manuscript.
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 272 pp.; 25 illus.
- Description
- Focuses "on fifteenth-century manuscripts of Chaucer, and . . . how these volumes were read, used, valued, and transformed" in the early modern period, reflecting "conventions which circulated in print and . . . convey prevailing preoccupations about Chaucer," his status, and the medieval past. Four chapters treat Chaucerian manuscripts and editions, addressing, respectively, (1) "Glossing, Correcting, and Emending"; (2) "Repairing and Completing"; (3) "Supplementing"; and (4) "Authorising" as ways of pursuing the ideologically charged bibliographical goal of perfecting Chaucerian texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations