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Adam Scriveyn
Agnostic
Altar Tomb
Ars Gratis Artis
Authentic Chaucer
Author_Thomas A. Prendergast
Benedict's Chapel
Benedict’s Chapel
brigham
canon formation studies
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Chaucer Canon
Chaucer Society
Chaucer's Death
Chaucer's Genius
Chaucer's Text
Chaucer's Tomb
Chaucer's Work
chaucers
Chaucer’s Death
Chaucer’s Genius
Chaucer’s Text
Chaucer’s Tomb
Chaucer’s Work
death
England's Literary Heritage
England’s Literary Heritage
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Father Chaucer
Filthy Love
geoffrey
gough
Grey Friars
Henry III
Hic Locus Est
john
John Stow
Lansdowne MS
literary legacy research
medieval author commemoration
medieval literary reception
memorialization theory
necronationalism
nicholas
nichols
Original Grave
Original Tomb
textual authenticity analysis
Thomas Hoccleve
tomb
Violated
work
Product details
- ISBN 9780415966795
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Chaucer's Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer's transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages. This book weaves an intricate argument about the ways that the body, death, and representation come together in the recuperation and reception of Chaucer over the centuries, and proposes a deeply compelling logic that links memorialization and canon formation. Making a persuasive and intriguing case that the status of Chaucer's physical body is an index of the status of Chaucer's work, and furthermore that there continues to be a link between corpse and corpus in all of our assertions of positive and negative literary values from Chaucer's time on, Prendergast organizes his study of Chaucer's literary legacy around Chaucer's tomb - around the history of attempts to restore it, to determine its authenticity, and to establish its exact location.
