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

Folger bibliographic ID: 335233
Folger call number: PR311 .A76 2013
Folger holdings ID: 486461

"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

General 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

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

English poetry Literature and society Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis Gower, John, 1325?-1408 Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Legend of good women Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 Social classes England Literacy Tyler's Insurrection, 1381

author: Arner, Lynn
subject: Gower, John, 1325?-1408
subject: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400