| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford English monographs
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Oxford English monographs.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Author and the Book; 1. Caxton and Fifteenth-Century English Books; 2. Good Utterance: Printing and Innovation after 1478; 3. Assembling Chaucer's Texts in Print, 1517 to 1532; 4. Court and Cloister: Editions of Lydgate, 1509 to 1534; 5. The Press, the Medieval Author, and the English Reformations, 1534 to 1557; Afterword: At Lydgate's Tomb; Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; Index of Printed Editions, Texts Ascribed to Chaucer and Lydgate, 1473-1557; General Index. |
| Summary |
Alexandra Gillespie takes a new look at hundreds of neglected old books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history. - ;Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and their late medieval analogues, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John Lydgate. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Printing -- England -- History -- Origin and antecedents.
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Printing. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Transmission of texts -- England -- History.
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Transmission of texts. |
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1450-1600 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gillespie, Alexandra. Print culture and the medieval author. Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 9780199262953 0199262950 (DLC) 2007295235 (OCoLC)67869310 |
| ISBN |
9781429460224 (electronic book) |
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1429460229 (electronic book) |
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9780191514654 (electronic book) |
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0191514659 (electronic book) |
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1280759186 |
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9781280759185 |
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0199262950 (Cloth) |
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9780199262953 (acid-free paper) |
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