Print culture and the medieval author :: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their books 1473-1557 /

Alexandra Gillespie takes a new look at hundreds of neglected old books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer...

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1. Verfasser: Gillespie, Alexandra
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford English monographs.
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Zusammenfassung:Alexandra Gillespie takes a new look at hundreds of neglected old books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history. - ;Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and their late medieval analogues, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John Lydgate.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and indexes.
ISBN:9781429460224
1429460229
9780191514654
0191514659
1280759186
9781280759185

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