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Article: Alexandra Gillespie, Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books, 1473-1557.(Book review)
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Alexandra Gillespie, Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and their Books, 1473-1557, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xiv + 281 pp.; 58 plates. ISBN 0-19-926295-0. 55.00 [pounds sterling].
When Chaucer penned his nervous stanza 'Wordes unto Adam, his owne Scriveyn', complaining that scribal inaccuracies (through 'negligence and rape') had required the author to erase and correct his long-haired copyist's botched efforts, he was articulating an anxiety common to many writers. At the end of Troilus and Criseyde the poet is similarly nagged by concerns of control and misrepresentation: how is it that the author ...
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