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Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising : poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 / Lynn Arner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arner, Lynn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Literacy--England--History--To 1500.
- Literacy.
- Social classes--England--History--To 1500.
- Social classes.
- England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271062068
- 0271062061
- 9780271062044
- 0271062045
- 9780271062037
- 0271062037
- 9780271061016
- 0271061014
- OCLC:
- 864855505
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