The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
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- 94042906
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107609631
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Additional information
- Each of the three editors contributed equally (33.3%) to this volume, collaborating on the commissioning and production of the volume, selecting authors, drafting chapter synopses, editing individual chapters, and preparing the final typescript. The volume includes a co-authored Preface, Introduction, and scholarly apparatus. In addition, each author wrote a single-authored chapter.
The Companion is the centrepiece of a series of scholarly and public engagement activities centred on the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio’s birth in 2013, jointly organized by the three co-editors. These included an exhibition of manuscripts, early prints, and artists’ books at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, and a fine press translation (co-edited and introduced by Daniels and Armstrong). Daniels commissioned the artists’ books, which were also exhibited at The Bower Ashton Library at UWE, Bristol and online.
Throughout these events, the editors advanced a positioned material-textual approach, driving out of the history of the texts and their transmission and reception, mediating between the romance philological traditions of Europe and Italy and more literary-critical approaches from North America. The Companion offers a long overdue, revisionary, assessment of the status and innovations of Boccaccio, combined with a critically-informed perspective on his texts via their material production and the media of their dissemination. It thus aligns with the material and medial turn within the humanities, marking a substantial development in Boccaccio studies and making a major statement about UK-based work in this field. Daniels’s single-authored chapter contributes to these overarching arguments by emphasizing modes of authorial technique which run throughout Boccaccio’s literary practice, and problematizing the question of audience and reception as an issue which cuts across the boundaries traditionally drawn between the fictional and non-fictional.
The Companion encompasses the most recent archival and bibliographic research and includes the most up-to-date list of Boccaccio’s autograph manuscripts in any English-language publication.
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