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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 November 2014
    06 November 2014
    ISBN:
    9781139923279
    9781107076228
    9781107431683
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139923279
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.68kg, 368 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.54kg, 368 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (91)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (91)
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    This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate, and on prose works such as chronicles, religious instruction and practical lore. His materials are the variants and corrections found in manuscripts, phenomena usually studied only by editors or palaeographers, but his method is the close reading and interpretation typical of literary criticism. From the corrections emerge often overlooked aspects of English literary thinking in the late Middle Ages: scribes, readers and authors seek, though often fail to achieve, invariant copying, orderly spelling, precise diction, regular verse and textual completeness. Correcting reveals their impressive attention to scribal and literary craft - its rigour, subtlety, formalism and imaginativeness - in an age with little other literary criticism in English.

    Awards

    Co-Winner of the 2015 George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)

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