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Seth Lerer. 
Chaucer and his Readers: Imagining the Author in Late Medieval England.
Princeton U.P., 3rd impression (previously issued 1996; hardback was 1993).
ISBN 0691029237;
ISBN-13: 9780691029238.
Paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA by Princeton Academic Press.
153x234x20mm.
xv,309pp. 
Main language English;
Quotations & appendices given in Middle English without translation.
Good to very good condition: corners curling a little, some scuffs and indentations to the covers, page edges slightly grubby; . 

This item £11.00
[Publisher's price $31.95/£21.95]
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
Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 8, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 18pp
Index: yes

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See also: | Chaucer | Chaucerian literature |

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