Who is Buried in Chaucer's Tomb?: Studies in the Reception of Chaucer's Book

Joseph A. Dane examines the history of the books we now know as "Chaucer’s"—a history that includes printers and publishers, editors, antiquarians, librarians, and book collectors. The Chaucer at issue here is not a medieval poet, securely bound within his fourteenth-century context, but rather the product of the often chaotic history of the physical books that have been produced and marketed in his name.

This history involves a series of myths about Chaucer—a reformist Chaucer, a realist ...