| Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: Textuality and Reception Contributor(s): Fumo, Jamie C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 178316347X ISBN-13: 9781783163472 Publisher: University of Wales Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.1 |
| Series: New Century Chaucer |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.95 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess is the first comprehensive book-length study of Chaucer's earliest major narrative poem and its reception. It provides a rigorous and critically balanced assimilation of the Book of the Duchess, the story of its reception and dissemination, and the major trends in its interpretive history. Focusing on the construction and value of the Book of the Duchess as a book, Jamie C. Fumo explores Chaucer's concern with acts of writing and the textual mediation of experience. At the same time, Fumo places Chaucer's poem within the context of his era's broader concerns with authority, reading practices, and the vernacular. |