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The poet and the antiquaries : Chaucerian scholarship and the rise of literary history, 1532-1635 /...

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The poet and the antiquaries : Chaucerian scholarship and the rise of literary history, 1532-1635 / Megan L. Cook.

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Full title

The poet and the antiquaries : Chaucerian scholarship and the rise of literary history, 1532-1635 / Megan L. Cook.

Publisher

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

Call Numbers

G 2019/3866

Record Identifier

74VKVexAbJDO

MMS ID

991024257916502626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

278 pages ; 24 cm

Content type

text

Media type

unmediated

Carrier type

volume

Contents

A note on spelling and punctuation -- Introduction : "Only by thy books": knowing Chaucer in early modern England -- The first first folios: Chaucer's "Works" in print -- "Noster Galfridus": Chaucer's early modern biographies -- "For every man to read that is disposed": Chaucer the proto-Protestant...

Publication information

Publisher

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

Place of Publication

Pennsylvania

Date Published

[2019]

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Scope and Contents

Summary

Between 1532 and 1602, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer were published in no less than six folio editions. These were, in fact, the largest books of poetry produced in sixteenth-century England, and they significantly shaped the perceptions of Chaucer that would hold sway for centuries to come. But it is the stories behind these editions that are the...

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Full title

The poet and the antiquaries : Chaucerian scholarship and the rise of literary history, 1532-1635 / Megan L. Cook.

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Notes

General note

"Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library".

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-266) and index.

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Call Numbers

G 2019/3866

Record Identifier

74VKVexAbJDO

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVexAbJDO

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ISBN

0812250826 hardcover

9780812250824 hardcover

DDC

821.1

MMS ID

991024257916502626

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