John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-84384-553-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 322 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Publications of the John Gower Society

Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.

The media in which Gower's works were first transmitted, whether in print of manuscript form, are of vital importance to an understanding of both the poet and his audience. However, in comparison with those of his contemporary Chaucer, they have been relatively little studied.
This volume represents a major collaboration between specialist scholars in manuscript and book history, and experts in Gower more generally, breaking new ground in approaching Gower through first-hand study of his publications in manuscript and print. Its chapters consider such matters as manuscript and book illumination, provenance, variant texts and editions, scribes, and printers, looking at how, and to what degree, the materiality of the vellum, paper, ink and binding illuminates - and even implicates - the poet and his poetry.

MARTHA DRIVER is Distinguished Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Pace University; the late DEREK PEARSALL was Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University; R.F. YEAGER Is Professor of English and Foreign Languages, Emeritus, University of West Florida.

Contributors: Stephanie L. Batkie, Julia Boffey, Margaret Connolly, Siân Echard, A.S.G. Edwards, Robert Epstein, Brian W. Gastle, Amanda J. Gerber, Yoshiko Kobayashi, Aditi Nafde, Tamara Peréz-Fernández, Wendy Scase, Karla Taylor, David Watt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Driver, Martha W

Pearsall, Derek

Yeager, Robert F

Weitere Mitwirkende

Edwards, A. S. G.

Nafde, Aditi

Gerber, Amanda J.

Gastle, Brian

Watt, David

Pearsall, Derek

Boffey, Julia

Taylor, Karla

Connolly, Margaret

Driver, Martha W.

Epstein, Robert

Yeager, Robert F.

Echard, Sian

Batkie, Stephanie L.

Peréz-Fernández, Tamara

Scase, Wendy

Kobayashi, Yoshiko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Scase, Wendy
WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Edwards, A. S. G.
A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Watt, David
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.

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

Connolly, Margaret
Margaret Connolly is Professor of Palaeography and Codicology at the University of St. Andrews.

Pearsall, Derek
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.

Pearsall, Derek
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.