Lordship and literature : John Gower and the politics of the great household /
In a sustained new reading of John Gower's major English poem, Confessio Amantis (1390-3), Elliot Kendall shows how deeply the great household shaped the way Gower and his contemporaries (including Chaucer, Clanvowe, chroniclers, and parliamentary petitioners) imagined their world.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Clarendon Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Oxford English monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In a sustained new reading of John Gower's major English poem, Confessio Amantis (1390-3), Elliot Kendall shows how deeply the great household shaped the way Gower and his contemporaries (including Chaucer, Clanvowe, chroniclers, and parliamentary petitioners) imagined their world. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-291) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191562198 019156219X 9780191715419 0191715417 |