Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-172) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chaucer's Death: Two Stories, Three Mourners; Translating Chaucer: Denial and Resistance; Nineteenth- Century Necronationalism and the Chaucerian Uncanny; Beautiful Tomb/Beautiful Text; Chaucer's Stature; Secular and Sacred Pilgrimages: Chaucer's Corpse and Becket's Body; Chaucer's Tomb and Nicholas Brigham An unpublished manuscript by Laurence Tanner; Notes; Index.
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In Chaucer's Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer's transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages.
Chaucer's dead body.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey,-1400-- Appreciation-- Great Britain.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,-1400-- Criticism and interpretation-- History.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,-1400-- Death and burial.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,-1400-- Tomb.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,-1400.
Authors and readers-- Great Britain-- History.
Canon (Literature)
Criticism-- Great Britain-- History.
Literature, Medieval-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.