The poet and the antiquaries : Chaucerian scholarship and the rise of literary history, 1532-1635 /...
The poet and the antiquaries : Chaucerian scholarship and the rise of literary history, 1532-1635 / Megan L. Cook.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
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G 2019/3866
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English
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278 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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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...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
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Pennsylvania
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[2019]
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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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The poet and the antiquaries : Chaucerian scholarship and the rise of literary history, 1532-1635 / Megan L. Cook.
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"Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library".
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-266) and index.
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G 2019/3866
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74VKVexAbJDO
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0812250826 hardcover
9780812250824 hardcover
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821.1
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991024257916502626