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Autore: | Arner Lynn |
Titolo: | Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising : poetry and the problem of the populace after 1381 / / Lynn Arner |
Pubblicazione: | University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2013] |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina: | 821.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Literacy - England - History - To 1500 |
Social classes - England - History - To 1500 | |
Soggetto geografico: | England Social conditions 1066-1485 |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Chaucer, Gower, and the vernacular rising |
ISBN: | 0-271-06206-1 |
0-271-06204-5 | |
0-271-06203-7 | |
0-271-06101-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910788317103321 |
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