Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

Textuality and Reception

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Medieval, Poetry History & Criticism
Cover of the book Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess by Jamie C. Fumo, University of Wales Press
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Author: Jamie C. Fumo ISBN: 9781783163496
Publisher: University of Wales Press Publication: September 24, 2015
Imprint: University of Wales Press Language: English
Author: Jamie C. Fumo
ISBN: 9781783163496
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Publication: September 24, 2015
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Language: English

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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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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