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Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval literature: where fame came from, who deserved it, whether it was desirable and how it was acquired and kept. An interest in fame was not new but was renewed and rethought within the vernacular revolutions of the later Middle Ages. The work of Geoffrey Chaucer collates received ideas on the subject of fama, both from the classical world and from the work of his contemporaries. Chaucer's place in these intertextual negotiations was readily recognized in his aftermath, as later writers adopted and reworked postures which Chaucer had struck, in their own bids for literary authority. This volume tracks debates on fama which were past, present and future to Chaucer, using his work as a centre point to investigate canon formation in European literature from the late Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period. Isabel Davis is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Birkbeck, University of London; Catherine Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Alcuin Blamires, Julia Boffey, Isabel Davis, Stephanie Downes, A.S.G. Edwards, Jamie C. Fumo, Andrew Galloway, Nick Havely, Thomas A. Prendergast, Mike Rodman Jones, William T. Rossiter, Elizaveta Strakhov.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Chaucer and Fame
• Subtitle: Reputation and Reception
• Author: Isabel Davis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9781843844075
• ISBN: 1843844079
• ID: 09022289
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Weight: 564 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 165 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. March 2015

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