Tracing their transition from manuscript to print, Kathleen Forni analyzes how these works became associated with Chaucer and historicizes the creation of the folio canon. Taking case examples and select editors and critics from the 15th through the 20th centuries, she offers detailed accounts of how they responded to or participated in the construction of the apocrypha. Emphasizing the individuality of each work's history and the influence of specific historical forces and personages, she offers provocative commentaries on the works, providing time capsules of the history of Chaucer scholarship and a miniature anthology of Chaucerian criticism itself.
Forni collects virtually all of the scholarly references and discussions of apocryphal texts and assembles a working canon of the apocrypha, listing every manuscript and early printed book containing one or more of these poems. Of great interest to Chaucerians, this important study will also be welcomed by general medievalists and literary historians.
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Tracing their transition from manuscript to print, Kathleen Forni analyzes how these works became associated with Chaucer and historicizes the creation of the folio canon. Taking case examples and select editors and critics from the 15th through the 20th centuries, she offers detailed accounts of how they responded to or participated in the construction of the apocrypha. Emphasizing the individuality of each work's history and the influence of specific historical forces and personages, she offers provocative commentaries on the works, providing time capsules of the history of Chaucer scholarship and a miniature anthology of Chaucerian criticism itself.
Forni collects virtually all of the scholarly references and discussions of apocryphal texts and assembles a working canon of the apocrypha, listing every manuscript and early printed book containing one or more of these poems. Of great interest to Chaucerians, this important study will also be welcomed by general medievalists and literary historians.
Imprint | University Press of Florida |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | November 2001 |
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First published | November 2001 |
Authors | Kathleen Forni |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 240 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8130-2427-1 |
Barcode | 9780813024271 |
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LSN | 0-8130-2427-7 |