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

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

Author/creator	Arner, Lynn
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,
Description	198 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	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. English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500 --History and criticism. Literature and society--England --History --To 1500. Social classes--England --History --To 1500. Literacy--England --History --To 1500. Tyler's Insurrection, 1381. England--Social conditions --1066-1485.

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.
Abstract	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-189) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012034456
ISBN	9780271058931 (cloth : alk. paper)

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