Writing After Chaucer - Essential Readings in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century

List of contents

Introduction, Daniel Pinti * Quesitons of Evidence: Manuscripts and the Early History of Chaucer's Works, Stephen Partridge * Language Policy for Lancastrian England, John H. Fisher * Scribes as Chaucer's Early Critics, Barry Windeatt * New Reader and Female Textuality in Two Early Commentaries on Chaucer, Susan Schibanoff * Chaucer's Fifteenth-Century Audience and the Narrowing of the Chaucer Tradition, Paul Strohm * Reputation and Circulation of Chaucer's Lyrics in the 15th Century, Julia Boffey * Father Chaucer, A.C. Spearing * The Tale of Beryn and The Siege of Thebes: Alternative Ideas of The Canterbury Tales, John Bowers * Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, C. David Benson * Textual Authority and the Works of Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Heryson, Tim william Machan * Scottish Chaucer, Louise Fradenburg * At Chaucer's Tomb: Laureation and Paternity in Caxton's Criticism, Seth Lerer

About the author

Daniel Pinti

Summary

This volume makes available to teachers, students, and scholars a convenient selection of the most provocative and influential articles from the past 20 years on Chaucer's "afterlife" in the 15th century.

Product details

• Assisted by: Daniel Pinti (Editor), Pinti Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780815326519
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2651-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 700 g
• Series: Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Time
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: poetry & poets, British Isles, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets