Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising : poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 /
This book 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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.