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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788317103321

Autore

Arner Lynn

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-271-06206-1

0-271-06204-5

0-271-06203-7

0-271-06101-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

821.1

Soggetti

Literacy - England - History - To 1500

Social classes - England - History - To 1500

England Social conditions 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.