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

Title
Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising : poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 / Lynn Arner.
Author
Arner, Lynn.
Publication
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013.

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Description
198 p.; 24 cm.
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.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JFE 13-6205
ISBN
  • 9780271058931 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0271058935 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012034456
OCLC
809988975
Author
Arner, Lynn.
Title
Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising : poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 / Lynn Arner.
Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-189) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 13-6205
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