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Making Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess: Textuality and Reception is the first comprehensive book-length study of Chaucer’s earliest major narrative poem and its reception. It provides a rigorous and critically balanced assimilation of the Book of the Duchess, the story of its reception and dissemination, and the major trends in its interpretive history into the fabric of twenty-first century Chaucer studies.

Focusing on the construction and value of the Book of the Duchess as a book, this study explores Chaucer’s concern with acts of writing and the textual mediation of experience. At the same time, it contextualises Chaucer’s poem within his era’s broader concerns with authority, reading practices, and the vernacular. By yoking issues of creative and scholarly reception with those of book production and materiality, Jamie C. Fumo’s study innovatively highlights acts of collaboration stemming from the poem’s status as a textual, imaginative act.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Reading the Book (I): Critical History — An Overview
Chapter 2. Reading the Book (II): Themes, Problems, Interpretations
Chapter 3. All This Black: Reading and Making
Chapter 4. Rereading the Book (I): The Materials of Transmission
Chapter 5. Rereading the Book (II): Literary Reception Up to the Sixteenth Century
‘Now hit ys doon’: Conclusion
Bibliography

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	24 septembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783163489
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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N e w C e N t u r y C h a u C e r

Making Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess

New CeNtury ChauCer

Series Editors Professor Helen Fulton, University of Bristol Professor Ruth Evans, Saint Louis University

Editorial Board Professor Ardis Butterﬁeld, Yale University Dr Orietta Da Rold, University of Cambridge Dr David Matthews, University of Manchester

The works of Geoffrey Chaucer are the moststudied literary texts of the Middle Ages, appearing on school and university syllabuses throughout the world. From The Canterbury Talesthrough the dream visions and philosophical works toTroilus and Criseyde, the translations and short poems, Chaucer’s writing illuminates the fourteenth century and its intellectual traditions. Taken together with the work of his contemporaries and successors in the ﬁfteenth century, the Chaucerian corpus arguably still deﬁnes the shape of latemedieval literature.

For twentiethcentury scholars and students, the study of Chaucer and the late Middle Ages largely comprised attention to linguistic history, historicism, close reading, biographical empiricism and traditional editorial practice. While all these approaches retain some validity, the new generations of twentyﬁrstcentury students and scholars are conversant with the digital humanities and with emerging critical approaches – the ‘affective turn’, new materialisms, the history of the book, sexuality studies, global literatures, and the ‘cognitive turn’. Importantly, today’s readers have been trained in new methodologies of knowledge retrieval and exchange. In the age of instant information combined with multiple sites of authority, the meaning of the texts of Chaucer and his age has to be constantly renegotiated.

The series New Century Chaucer is a direct response to new ways of reading and analysing medieval texts in the twentyﬁrst century. Purposebuilt editions and translations of individual texts, accompanied by stimulating studies introducing the latest research ideas, are directed towards contemporary scholars and students whose training and research interests have been shaped by new media and a broadbased curriculum. Our aim is to publish editions, with translations, of Chaucerian and related texts alongside focused studies which bring new theories and approaches into view, including comparative studies, manuscript production, Chaucer’s postmedieval reception, Chaucer’s contemporaries and successors, and the historical context of latemedieval literary production. Where relevant, online support includes images and bibliographies that can be used for teaching and further research.

The further we move into the digital world, the more important the study of medieval literature becomes as an anchor to previous ways of thinking that paved the way for modernity and are still relevant to postmodernity. As the works of Chaucer, his contemporaries and his immediate successors travel into the twentyﬁrst century, New Century Chaucer will provide, we hope, a pathway towards new interpretations and a spur to new readers.

N e w C e N t u r y C h a u C e r

Making Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess Textuality and Reception

J A M I E C . F U M O

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2015

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9781783163472 9781783163489

The right of Jamie C. Fumo to be identiﬁed as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Typeset by Marie Doherty Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire.

To Vincent, for giving the push, and to Rocco, for leading the way

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Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations

Introduction

CONTENTS

1 Reading theBook(I): Critical History – An Overview 2 Reading theBook(II): Themes, Problems, Interpretations 3 All This Black: Reading and Making 4 Rereading theBook(I): The Materials of Transmission 5 Rereading theBook(II): Literary Reception up to the Sixteenth Century

‘Now hit ys doon’: Conclusion

Notes Bibliography Index

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ombing through the entire critical history of even a supposedly C ‘minor’ Chaucerian poem is a daunting task for the twentyﬁrst century scholar, and in this I beneﬁted enormously from several valu able scholarly resources. I must record my debt to the generous and informative interpretative guides to theBook of the Duchessprovided in Helen Phillips’s 1982 critical edition and Colin Wilcockson’s Explanatory Notes inTheRiverside Chaucer, as well as A. J. Minnis’s overview of the poem and its backgrounds (with V. J. Scattergood and J. J. Smith) in the 1995 Oxford Guides to Chaucer volume onThe Shorter Poems, and Will Roger Knedlik’s 1978 University of Washington PhD disserta tion on ‘Chaucer’sBook of the Duchess:a bibliographic compendium of the ﬁrst 600 years’. I am grateful to Stephanie Downes for sharing work in progress on Chaucer’s French reception, and to Ben Barootes for numerous inspiring conversations regarding theBook of the Duchess, the fruits of which appear in a McGill University doctoral dissertation from which I proﬁted in the later stages of this study. I would also like to record my sincere appreciation for the support this project received at University of Wales Press. Finally, my deepest thanks go, as ever, to this study’s dedicatees, without whom there probably would have been no book, and certainly no dream.