Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-172) and index.
Contents:
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 -- Coda : Secular and sacred pilgrimages : Chaucer's corpse and Becket's body -- Appendix : Chaucer's tomb and Nicholas Brigham : an unpublished manuscript by Laurence Tanner.
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