Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

Contexts and Interpretations
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-84384-504-1
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 254 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Chaucer Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fumo, Jamie C

Weitere Mitwirkende

Edwards, A. S. G.

Butterfield, Ardis

Barootes, B S W

Strakhov, Elizaveta

Phillips, Helen

Fumo, Jamie C.

Espie, Jeff

Boffey, Julia

Wells, Marion

Knox, Philip

Davis, Rebecca

Sturm-Maddox, Sara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Reopening the Book of the Duchess - Jamie C. Fumo
Codicology, Text, and the Book of the Duchess - Julia Boffey and A S G Edwards
Idleness, Chess, and Tables: Recuperating Fables in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess - B. S. W. Barootes
'Noon other werke': The Work of Sleep in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess - Rebecca Davis
Discovering Woe: The Translation of Affect in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and Spenser's Daphnaïda - Marion Wells
Alcyone's Grave: Inscription and Intertextuality in Chaucer, Spenser, and Ovid - Jeff Espie
Tribute to a Duchess: The Book of the Duchess and Machaut's Remede de Fortune - Sara Sturm-Maddox
'Hyt am I': Voicing Selves in the Book of the Duchess, the Roman de la rose, and the Fonteinne Amoureuse - Philip Knox
'Counterfeit' Imitatio: Understanding the Poet-Patron Relationship in Machaut's Fonteinne amoureuse and Chaucer's Book of the Duchess - Elizaveta Strakhov
The Shock of the Old? The Unsettling Art of Chaucer's Antique Citations - Helen Phillips
Response: The Book of the Duchess, Guillaume de Machaut, and the Image of the Archive - Ardis Butterfield
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

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 University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.

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