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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Arner, Lynn
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
Subjects:	English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. Literature and society > England > History > To 1500. 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. Social classes > England > History > To 1500. England > Social conditions > 1066-1485. Literacy > England > History > To 1500. Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.

Table of 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.