Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising : Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381 /

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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Arner, Lynn (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Gower, John, > 1325?-1408.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
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.
Legend of good women (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Confessio amantis (Gower, John)
Social conditions
Social classes.
Literature and society.
Literacy.
English poetry > Middle English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Insurrection de Tyler, 1381.
Poesie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
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.
England.
Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 1066-1485.
England > Social conditions > 1066-1485.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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