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 earned his exclusive place in English literary history.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
XIII, 281 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 22 cm.
9780199262953, 0199262950
237122619
Introduction: The Author and the Book ; 1. Caxton and the Fifteenth-Century English Book ; 2. Good Utterance: Printing and Innovation after 1478 ; 3. Assembling Chaucer's Texts in Print, 1517 to 1532 ; 4. Court and Cloister: Editions of Lydgate, 1509 to 1534 ; 5. The Press, the Medieval Author, and the English Reformation, 1534 to 1557 ; Afterword: At Lydgate's Tomb ; Manuscripts ; Editions Printed Containing Texts Ascribed to Chaucer or Lydgate, 1473-1557