Chaucer''s Early Modern Readers - Reception in Print and Manuscript

"This is the first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period"--

List of contents

1. Glossing, correcting, and emending; 2. Repairing and completing; 3. Supplementing; 4. Authorising.

About the author

Devani Singh is an SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow at the University of Geneva, where she specialises in medieval and early modern English literature and book history. Her recent work includes a critical edition of the commonplace book Bel-vedére (with Lukas Erne, Cambridge University Press, 2020) and essays which have appeared in Book History, The Review of English Studies, The Chaucer Review, and Digital Philology.

Summary

This is the first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period. The book appeals to book historians and to medieval and early modern scholars and students and this title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Foreword

This is the first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period.

Product details

• Authors: Devani Singh, Devani (Universite De Geneve) Singh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009231114
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0923111-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, CE period up to c 1500, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600