02489nam 2200637 450 991081245220332120230126211310.00-271-06206-10-271-06204-50-271-06203-70-271-06101-410.1515/9780271062037(CKB)3170000000060178(EBL)3385088(SSID)ssj0000872919(PQKBManifestationID)11477102(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000872919(PQKBWorkID)10865320(PQKB)10261249(MiAaPQ)EBC3385088(OCoLC)864855505(MdBmJHUP)muse25366(MiAaPQ)EBC6223974(DE-B1597)583967(DE-B1597)9780271062037(OCoLC)1253313648(EXLCZ)99317000000006017820200929d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 /Lynn ArnerUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :The Pennsylvania State University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (210 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-271-05893-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.LiteracyEnglandHistoryTo 1500Social classesEnglandHistoryTo 1500EnglandSocial conditions1066-1485LiteracyHistorySocial classesHistory821.1Arner Lynn1651956MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812452203321Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising4002269UNINA