Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising
Arner, Lynn.
Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 / [electronic resource] : Lynn Arner. - University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (192 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chaucer's and Gower's early readership expanded -- Against the greyness of the multitude : poetry, prestige, and the Confessio amantis -- Time after time : historiography and Nebuchadnezzar's dream -- In defense of Cupid : poetics, gender, and The legend of good women -- Chaucer on the effects of poetry.
"Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes in England"--Provided by publisher.
9780271061016
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 --Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Legend of good women.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408 --Criticism and interpretation.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.
Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.
Literacy--History--England--To 1500.
Social classes--History--England--To 1500.
Literature and society--History--England--To 1500.
English poetry--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
Electronic books.
PR311 / .A76 2013
821/.109
Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 / [electronic resource] : Lynn Arner. - University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (192 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chaucer's and Gower's early readership expanded -- Against the greyness of the multitude : poetry, prestige, and the Confessio amantis -- Time after time : historiography and Nebuchadnezzar's dream -- In defense of Cupid : poetics, gender, and The legend of good women -- Chaucer on the effects of poetry.
"Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes in England"--Provided by publisher.
9780271061016
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 --Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Legend of good women.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408 --Criticism and interpretation.
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.
Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.
Literacy--History--England--To 1500.
Social classes--History--England--To 1500.
Literature and society--History--England--To 1500.
English poetry--History and criticism.--Middle English, 1100-1500
England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
Electronic books.
PR311 / .A76 2013
821/.109