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Author Prendergast, Thomas A. (Thomas Augustine)

Title Chaucer's dead body : from corpse to corpus / Thomas A. Prendergast.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 180 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172) and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chaucer's Death: Two Stories, Three Mourners; Translating Chaucer: Denial and Resistance; Nineteenth- Century Necronationalism and the Chaucerian Uncanny; Beautiful Tomb/Beautiful Text; Chaucer's Stature; Secular and Sacred Pilgrimages: Chaucer's Corpse and Becket's Body; Chaucer's Tomb and Nicholas Brigham An unpublished manuscript by Laurence Tanner; Notes; Index.
Summary In Chaucer's Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer's transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages.
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Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Criticism and interpretation.
History.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.
Great Britain.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Death and burial.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Tomb.
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Literature, Medieval.
Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History.
Authors and readers.
Criticism -- Great Britain -- History.
Criticism.
Middle Ages in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Canon (Literature)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Prendergast, Thomas A. (Thomas Augustine). Chaucer's dead body. New York : Routledge, ©2004 0415966787 0415966795 (DLC) 2003007754 (OCoLC)52047246
ISBN 0203495772 (electronic book)
9780203495773 (electronic book)
0415966795 (Paper)
0415966787 (hardback ; alkaline paper)