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Seth Lerer.
Chaucer and his Readers: Imagining the Author in Late Medieval England.
Publisher: Princeton U.P., 3rd impression (previously issued 1996; hardback was 1993).
ISBN 0691029237;
ISBN-13: 9780691029238.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA by Princeton Academic Press.
Size: 153×234×20mm.
Page count: xv,309pp.
Main language: English; quotations & appendices given in Middle English without translation.
Overall condition good: this copy has the usual scuffs and marks on its covers, a little wear on the edges with the corners starting to rub, all noticeable but not severe; the spine is a bit skewed and faded, but not otherwise creased from reading; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price $47.95/£39.95]
Weight without packaging: 471g.

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Examines how the idea of Chaucer as “laureate” and “father of English poetry” was constructed by 15th-century scribes, readers, and imitators.

Contents: The subject of Chaucerian reception; Laureate poets & the aureate world; Chaucer, Lydgate, Clanvowe, & the 15th‑c. anthology; Advisory aesthetics & scribal revision in the Canterbury Tales; John Shirley & the canonicity of Chaucer’s shorter poems; Laureation & paternity in Caxton’s criticism; Print, poetry, & fame in Hawes & Skelton.
Appendices: texts relating to chapter 3.

Illustrations: 8, monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 18pp
Index: yes

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