Format:
198 S.
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Ill.
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780271058948
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9780271058931
Content:
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
Content:
"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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-189) and index
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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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Gower, John 1330-1408 Confessio amantis
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Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400
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