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Author:   Martha W. Driver (Contributor) ,  Derek Pearsall ,  R F Yeager (Customer) ,  Professor A. S. G. Edwards
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
Volume:   v. 14
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.818kg
ISBN:  

9781843845539

ISBN 10:   1843845539
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   17 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction - Martha W. Driver and Derek Pearsall and Robert F. Yeager John Gower's Scribes and Literatim Copying - Wendy Scase Looking for Richard: Finding ""Moral Gower"" in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 92 - Stephanie L. Batkie A State above All Other: The Recensions of Confessio Amantis and the Anthropology of Sovereignty - Robert Epstein What Lies Beneath - Karla Taylor Earthly Gower: Transforming Geographical Texts and Images in the Confessio Amantis and Vox Clamantis Manuscripts - Amanda J. Gerber Paratextual Deviations: The Transmission and Translation of Gower's Confessio Amantis in the Iberian Peninsula - Tamara Peréz-Fernández ""Mescreantz,"" Schism, and the Plight of Constantinople: Evidence for Dating and Reading London, British Library, Additional MS 59495 - David Watt John Shirley and John Gower - Margaret Connolly Gower between Manuscript and Print - Sian Echard Gower from Print to Manuscript: Copying Caxton in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 51 - Aditi Nafde A Caxton Confessio: Readers and Users from Westminster to Chapel Hill - Brian Gastle English Poets in Print: Advertising Authorship from Caxton to Berthelet - Julia Boffey In Praise of European Peace: Gower's Verse Epistle in Thynne's 1532 Edition of Chaucer's Workes - Yoshiko Kobayashi George Campbell Macaulay and the Clarendon Edition of Gower - A S G Edwards Bibliography"

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Driver (Pace Univ.), Pearsall (emer., Harvard), and Yeager (emer., Univ. of West Florida) are all major scholars of Gower and medieval book history, and the sophisticated essays they have gathered provide excellent guidance for this tricky matter. Discoveries abound... All these essays will be valuable to specialists, and many will be of wider interest. * CHOICE *

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The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. David Watt is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba and a fellow of St. John's College. He has written extensively on Hoccleve's Series as well as articles on late medieval literature and book history. The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews. R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida. WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

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