Chaucer's Dead Body

Prendergast, Thomas A.

doi:10.4324/9780203495773

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“…This mechanical mode of indicating an extra syllable disguises the meaning of the word, and misrepresents the state of English orthography, when Chaucer wrote; it is therefore, in the present impression, discarded as an unjustifiable innovation. (Chaucer 1807, xii) As the editor explains, Urry's intention behind altering the text to use these endings is to outline clearly to the reader (especially one not familiar with Middle English, as was often the case by the eighteenth century) that some syllables were to be pronounced, in order for the line of verse to agree with the poem's metre (Lerer 1993;Matthews 1999;Morse 2003;Prendergast 2003). The editor admits this as an 'innovation' to the text, and in itself does not disapprove.…”

Section: Contents Of the 1807 Editionmentioning

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The 1807 edition of The Book of the Duchess

Marshall

2016

Textual Cultures

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The 124-volume edition of The Poets of Great Britain, containing The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, came into being when, in 1807, a group of thirty-three London booksellers began publication of a work that claims, from its title page, to be a reprint of John Bell’s 1782 series The Poets of Great Britain. The reality, however, is somewhat different. In fact the works of Chaucer have been markedly revised and re-edited, a feature that until now had not been noted by scholars.The following article is a textual analysis of some of the most striking features to have emerged from an analysis of the 1807 edition of The Book of the Duchess, as compared with its predecessors. The Book of the Duchess has been chosen as a sample text for this consideration, primarily because it is of sufficient scope to offer, on the one hand, a substantial enough sample from which to draw conclusions, and, on the other hand, limited enough to be manageable. In addition to these particular reasons, The Book of the Duchess is a poem the authority of which has never been questioned, and thus it has appeared in every printed edition of the works of Chaucer, providing this study with extensive points for comparison.

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Section: Contents Of the 1807 Editionmentioning

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The 1807 edition of The Book of the Duchess

Marshall

2016

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“…Nadat Megan Doherty de vroegste ontwikkeling van de Internationale PEN-club heeft geschetst, komt de geschiedenis van de PEN in de jaren 1920 in België en Nederland en in de jaren 1930 aan bod. 8 In elk geval bevestigt veel onderzoek dat het 'nationale' meer geconstrueerd werd via het 'internationale' en omgekeerd en dat literaire circulatie niet alleen internationaal is, maar ook transnationaal: culturele goederen circuleren, doorkruisen continu grenzen en creëren zelfs nieuwe grenzen. Als laatste artikel werd een bijdrage over de Spaanse PENclubs opgenomen.…”

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