Description
About the Author
Seth Lerer is Professor of English at Stanford University and author of Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy (Princeton) and Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Nebraska).
Reviews
Winner of the 1995 Beatrice White Award, English Association "A brilliant reassessment of the Chaucerian tradition during the fifteenth century... Described as 'a book about endings,' in which Chaucer's envoy is construed as the dominant trope in later moments of dedication, closure, and subjection to readerly correction, it is really a book about beginnings--new ways to discuss literary history, the influence of tradition, and the cultural status of the author."--John M. Bowers, Medium Aevum "An excellent book on the reception of Chaucer's writings in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. [Lerer's argument] is pursued with great energy and erudition, and with a subtlety and versatility of argumentative maneuver that make the book very readable as well as enormously rich in suggestion."--Yearbook of English Studies
Awards
Winner of Beatrice White Award of the English Association 1995.
Book Information
ISBN 9780691029238
Author Seth Lerer
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 482g