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Allusion
Anelida and Arcite
Anthology
Aureation
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Author_Seth Lerer
Biography
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Cornell University Press
Correction (novel)
Couplet
Criticism
Diction
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Eloquence
English poetry
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Evocation
Fiction
Genre
Historiography
Illustration
Imagery
Italian Renaissance
John Skelton
Literary criticism
Literary fiction
Literary theory
Literature
Manuscript
Middle English
Muse
Narration
Narrative
Old French
Parlement of Foules
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Petrarch
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Poet laureate
Poetry
Princeton University
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Publication
Reader-response criticism
Rhetoric
Ricardian (Richard III)
Roman de la Rose
Stanza
Stephen Hawes
Sylvia Huot
Textual criticism
The Canterbury Tales
The Clerk's Tale
The Consolation of Philosophy
The Fall of Princes
The House of Fame
The Knight's Tale
The Legend of Good Women
The Parson's Tale
The Prioress's Tale
The Squire's Tale
The Various
Troilus
Troilus and Criseyde
Writer
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691029238
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 29 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 to kings and master of technique, and Lerer reveals the patterns of subjection, childishness, and inability that characterize the stance of Chaucer's imitators and his readers. In figures from the Canterbury Tales such as the abused Clerk, the boyish Squire, and the infantilized narrator of the "Tale of Sir Thopas," in the excuse-ridden narrator of Troilus and Criseyde, and in Chaucer's cursed Adam Scriveyn, the poet's inheritors found their oppressed personae.
Through close readings of poetry from Lydgate to Skelton, detailed analysis of manuscript anthologies and early printed books, and inquiries into the political environments and the social contexts of bookmaking, Lerer charts the construction of a Chaucer unassailable in rhetorical prowess and political sanction, a Chaucer aureate and laureate.
Seth Lerer is Professor of English at Stanford University and author of Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy (Princeton) and Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Nebraska).
