John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books ISBN: 9781787448971 Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
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 approachingGower 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, andto 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; DEREK PEARSALL is 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.
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 .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.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 .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.Scase Wendy :
WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham.
