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Author:

Arner, Lynn.

Title:

Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising : poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 / Lynn Arner.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

198 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.
Gower, John,--1325?-1408.--Confessio amantis.
Gower, John,--1325?-1408--Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400.--Legend of good women.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Criticism and interpretation.
Social classes--England--History--To 1500.
England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
Literacy--England--History--To 1500.
Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,--1343-1400.
Gower, John,--1330-1408.
Leser.
Mittelenglisch.
Literatur.
Rezeption.
Großbritannien.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-189) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0271058935 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271058931 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)809988975

LCCN:

2012034456

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)