TY - BOOK AU - Arner,Lynn ED - Project Muse. TI - Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising: poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 SN - 9780271061016 AV - PR311 .A76 2013 U1 - 821/.109 23 PY - 2013/// CY - University Park, Pa. PB - Pennsylvania State University Press KW - Chaucer, Geoffrey, KW - Gower, John, KW - Tyler's Insurrection, 1381 KW - Literacy KW - England KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Social classes KW - Literature and society KW - English poetry KW - Middle English, 1100-1500 KW - History and criticism KW - Social conditions KW - 1066-1485 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780271061016/ ER -