Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Tales from Chaucer, in prose. Designed chiefly for the use of young persons. By Charles Cowden Clarke. Illustrated, etc
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPrinting the Middle Ages
Author: Sian EchardPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201841
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In Printing the Middle Ages Siân Echard looks to the postmedieval, postmanuscript lives of medieval texts, seeking to understand the lasting impact on both the popular and the scholarly imaginations of the physical objects that transmitted the Middle Ages to the English-speaking world. Beneath and behind the foundational works of recovery that established the canon of medieval literature, she argues, was a vast terrain of books, scholarly or popular, grubby or beautiful, widely disseminated or privately printed. By turning to these, we are able to chart the differing reception histories of the literary texts of the British Middle Ages. For Echard, any reading of a medieval text, whether past or present, amateur or academic, floats on the surface of a complex sea of expectations and desires made up of the books that mediate those readings. Each chapter of Printing the Middle Ages focuses on a central textual object and tells its story in order to reveal the history of its reception and transmission. Moving from the first age of print into the early twenty-first century, Echard examines the special fonts created in the Elizabethan period to reproduce Old English, the hand-drawn facsimiles of the nineteenth century, and today's experiments with the digital reproduction of medieval objects; she explores the illustrations in eighteenth-century versions of Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton; she discusses nineteenth-century children's versions of the Canterbury Tales and the aristocratic transmission history of John Gower's Confessio Amantis; and she touches on fine press printings of Dante, Froissart, and Langland.
Tales from Chaucer in Prose. Designed Chiefly for the Use of Young Persons
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerChaucer's Clerk's Tale
Author: Judith BronfmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000681254
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Originally published in 1994. This surveys the origin and development of one of Chaucer’s most problematic characters, Griselda, who through the centuries has challenged the horizon of expectations of many an audience. Starting with Boccaccio’s Decameron and suggesting in turn its precursors in whole or in part, Bronfman goes on to summarize the reigning opinions of Chaucer’s heroine and her situation. The advance of feminist perspectives on medieval literature had the result that for many the Clerk’s Tale has political overtones where the Walter-Griselda marriage may serve as a metaphor for, among other things, the state or right order. This study looks at the story from a long view, from its sources to the flood of critical interpretations - the creative reception of Chaucer’s story, outlining the many rewritings of Griselda from Chaucer to the twentieth century. A special chapter considers the Griselda story as represented in illustrations as well.
Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Notes and Queries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Questions and answers
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William JerdanNineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: “The” Academy
Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description