Chaucer's Book of the Duchess - Contexts and Interpretations

First entire collection centred on Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, making a compelling case for its importance and value.

List of contents

Introduction: Reopening the Book of the Duchess - Jamie C. Fumo
Codicology, Text, and the Book of the Duchess - Julia Boffey and A S G Edwards
Idleness, Chess, and Tables: Recuperating Fables in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess - B. S. W. Barootes
'Noon other werke': The Work of Sleep in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess - Rebecca Davis
Discovering Woe: The Translation of Affect in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and Spenser's Daphnaïda - Marion Wells
Alcyone's Grave: Inscription and Intertextuality in Chaucer, Spenser, and Ovid - Jeff Espie
Tribute to a Duchess: The Book of the Duchess and Machaut's Remede de Fortune - Sara Sturm-Maddox
'Hyt am I': Voicing Selves in the Book of the Duchess, the Roman de la rose, and the Fonteinne Amoureuse - Philip Knox
'Counterfeit' Imitatio: Understanding the Poet-Patron Relationship in Machaut's Fonteinne amoureuse and Chaucer's Book of the Duchess - Elizaveta Strakhov
The Shock of the Old? The Unsettling Art of Chaucer's Antique Citations - Helen Phillips
Response: The Book of the Duchess, Guillaume de Machaut, and the Image of the Archive - Ardis Butterfield
Bibliography

About the author

Jamie C. Fumo

Summary

First entire collection centred on Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, making a compelling case for its importance and value.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie C. Fumo
• Assisted by: Jamie Fumo (Editor), Jamie C Fumo (Editor), Jamie C. Fumo (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781843845041
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-504-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Series: Chaucer Studies; Chaucer Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies