| Description |
1 online resource (198 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
This book 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 |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis.
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Legend of good women.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Legend of good women
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
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Gower, John, 1325?-1408 fast |
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Confessio amantis (Gower, John) fast |
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Legend of good women (Chaucer, Geoffrey) fast |
| Subject |
English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Social classes -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Literacy -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Tyler's Insurrection, 1381.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English poetry -- Middle English
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Literacy
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Literature and society
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Social classes
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043312
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| Subject |
England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780271062037 |
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0271062037 |
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9780271062068 |
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0271062061 |
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9780271062044 |
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0271062045 |
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9780271061016 |
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0271061014 |
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