Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising [electronic resource] : poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 / Lynn Arner.
Material type: TextPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)ISBN:- 9780271061016
- Tyler's Insurrection, 1381
- Literacy -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Social classes -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500
- English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- 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
- England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485
- 821/.109 23
- PR311 .A76 2013
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.
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