National philology, imperial hierarchies, and the 'Defective' book of Sir John Mandeville
This article examines when and how the ‘Defective’ version of the Book of Sir John Mandeville came to be called ‘defective’. It describes the use of this name by Sir George F. Warner in an edition produced in 1889 for the elite bibliographic society the Roxburghe Club. Drawing on recent work in disa...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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