John Gower : manuscripts, readers, contexts / edited by Malte Urban.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Urban, Malte.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Disputatio (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 13.

Disputatio ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gower, John, 1325?-1408--Criticism and interpretation.

Gower, John.

Gower, John, 1325?-1408--Appreciation.

Gower, John, 1325?-1408.

Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.

Literature and society.

Criticism and interpretation.

England.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2009]

Contents:

Introduction / Malte Urban

Manuscripts, material, and translation. John Gower: reader, editor, and geometrician "for Engelondes sake" / Russell A. Peck ; Gower's Confessio amantis, the Prick of conscience, and the history of the Latin gloss in Early English literature / Andrew Galloway ; Women readers and Pierpont Morgan MS M. 126 / Martha Driver ; Translating women, translating texts: Gower's "Tale of Tereus" and the Castilian and Portuguese translations of the Confessio amantis / María Bullón-Fernández

Rhetoric and authority. Gower's Confessio amantis, natural morality, and vernacular ethics / J. Allan Mitchell ; Rhetorical Gower: Aristotelianism in the Confessio amantis's treatment of "rethorique" / Georgiana Donavin ; Past and present: Gower's use of old books in Vox clamantis / Malte Urban

London life and texts. "The slyeste of alle": the Lombard problem in John Gower's London / Craig E. Bertolet ; Promiscuous contexts: Gower's wife, prostitution, and the Confessio amantis / Eve Salisbury.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9782503524702

2503524702

OCLC:

455830422

Publisher Number:

99939702088