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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Arner, Lynn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.