Chaucer and His Readers: Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England

by Seth Lerer

Book Overview

Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers of the period constructed Chaucer as the "poet laureate" and "father" of English verse. Chaucer appears throughout the fifteenth century as an adviser...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691029237
• ISBN13: 9780691029238
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"