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A Companion to Gower
Sian Echard (Ed.)
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An introduction to Gower and his work, focusing on his sources, historical context and literary tradition; special attention is paid to Confessio Amantis. Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate were the three poets of their time considered to have founded the English poetic tradition. Gower, like Lydgate, eventually fell victim to changing tastes but is now enjoying renewed scholarly attention.Current work in manuscript studies, linguistic studies, vernacularity, translation, politics, and the contexts of literary production has found a rich source in Gower's trilingual, learned, and politically engaged corpus. This Companion to Gower offers essays by scholars from Britain and North America, ... Read more
An introduction to Gower and his work, focusing on his sources, historical context and literary tradition; special attention is paid to Confessio Amantis. Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate were the three poets of their time considered to have founded the English poetic tradition. Gower, like Lydgate, eventually fell victim to changing tastes but is now enjoying renewed scholarly attention.Current work in manuscript studies, linguistic studies, vernacularity, translation, politics, and the contexts of literary production has found a rich source in Gower's trilingual, learned, and politically engaged corpus. This Companion to Gower offers essays by scholars from Britain and North America, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843842446
SKU
V9781843842446
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About Sian Echard (Ed.)
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman. Professor Diane Watt is Head of the School of English and Languages, University of Surrey. Secretaries of God won the 1998 ... Read more
Reviews for A Companion to Gower
A welcome addition to the shelf of essay collections on Gower, in large part because of its scope.
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
The reader will come away with an enriched sense of Gower's true place in the history of English literature.... Eminently readable...Highly Recommended.
CHOICE
A place to begin work on this poet, to ... Read more
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY
The reader will come away with an enriched sense of Gower's true place in the history of English literature.... Eminently readable...Highly Recommended.
CHOICE
A place to begin work on this poet, to ... Read more