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) |