Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: Textuality and Reception (New Century Chaucer) - Hardcover

Book 1 of 5: New Century Chaucer

Jamie C. Fumo

 
9781783163472: Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: Textuality and Reception (New Century Chaucer)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 178316347X ISBN 13: 9781783163472
Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2015

Synopsis

Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: Textuality and Reception 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 into the fabric of twenty-first century Chaucer studies. Focusing on the construction and value of the Book of the Duchess as a book, this study explores Chaucer's concern with acts of writing and the textual mediation of experience. At the same time, it contextualises Chaucer's poem within his era's broader concerns with authority, reading practices, and the vernacular. By yoking issues of creative and scholarly reception with those of book production and materiality, Jamie C. Fumo's study innovatively highlights acts of collaboration stemming from the poem's status as a textual, imaginative act.

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About the Author

Jamie C. Fumo is Associate Professor of English at Florida State University. She has published widely on Chaucer s literary relationships, the transmission of classical myth, and medieval intertextuality.

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Publisher
University of Wales Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
178316347X
ISBN 13 
9781783163472
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272