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Chaucer's Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations

by Jamie C. Fumo , A. S. G. Edwards , Ardis Butterfield
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781843845041
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
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  • Pages: 254
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 536 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Medieval

First entire collection centred on Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, making a compelling case for its importance and value.

The Book of the Duchess, Chaucer's first major poem, is foundational for our understanding of Chaucer's literary achievements in relation to late-medieval English textual production; yet in comparison with other works, itstreatment has been somewhat peripheral in previous criticism.
This volume, the first full-length collection devoted to the Book, argues powerfully against the prevalent view that it is an underdeveloped or uneven early work, and instead positions it as a nuanced literary and intellectual effort in its own right, one that deserves fuller integration with twenty-first-century Chaucer studies. The essays within it pursue lingering questions as well as new frontiers in research, including the poem's literary relationships in the sphere of French and English writing, material processes of transmission and compilation, and patterns of reception. Each chapter advances an original reading of the Book of the Duchess that uncovers new aspects of its internal dynamics or of its literary or intellectual contexts. As a whole, the volume reveals the poem's mobility and elasticity within an increasingly international sphere of cultural discourse that thrives on dynamic exchange and encourages sophisticated reflection on authorial practice.

Jamie C. Fumo is Professor of English at Florida State University.

Contributors: B.S.W. Barootes, Julia Boffey, Ardis Butterfield, Rebecca Davis, A.S.G. Edwards, Jeff Espie, Philip Knox, Helen Phillips, Elizaveta Strakhov, Sara Sturm-Maddox, Marion Wells.

Boffey, Julia: - JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London.

Edwards, A. S. G.: - A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Knox, Philip: - PHILIP KNOX is Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.

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