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New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he participated.
List of contents
Introduction. John Gower: Readings in the Work of a Trilingual Poet - Elisabeth Dutton
Southwark Gower - Augustinian Agencies in Gower's Manuscripts and Texts - Some Prolegomena - Jean-Pascal Pouzet
The Place of Egypt in Gower's
Confessio Amantis - Ethan Knapp
Topical and Tropological Gower: Invoking Armenia in the
Confessio Amantis - Carolyn P Collette
Saving History: Gower's Apocalyptic and the New Arion - Elliot Kendall
Gower's Poetics of the Literal - Robert R. Edwards
Romance, Popular Style, and the
Confessio Amantis: Confict or Evasion? - George Shuffleton
John Gower: Prophet or Turncoat? - Nigel Saul
The Parliamentary Source of Gower's
Cronica Tripertita and Incommensurable Styles - David R. Carlson
John Gower's Legal Advocacy and "In Praise of Peace" - Candace Barrington
Se-duction and Sovereign Power in Gower's
Confessio Amantis book V - Andreea D. Boboc
The Fifteen Stars, Stones, and Herbs: book VII of the
Confessio Amantis and its Afterlife - Tamara F. O'Callaghan
"Of the parfite medicine":
Merita Perpetuata in Gower's Vernacular Alchemy - Stephanie L. Batkie
Inside Out in Gower's Republic of Letters - Karla Taylor
Gower's Business: Artistic Production of Cultural Capital and the Tale of Florent - Brian Gastle
Genius and Sensual Reading in the
Vox Clamantis - Matthew W. Irvin
Irony v. Paradox in the
Confessio Amantis - Peter Nicholson
Sinning against Love in
Confessio Amantis - John A. Burrow
The Woman's Response in John Gower's
Cinkante Balades - Holly Barbaccia
Rich Words: Gower's
Rime Riche in Dramatic Action - Kim Zarins
Florent's
mariage sous la potence - Richard Firth Green
Why did Gower write the
Traitié? - Cathy Hume
Rival Poets: Gower's
Confessio and Chaucer's
Legend of Good Women - John M. Bowers
Reassessing Gower's Dream Visions - Andrew Galloway
John Gower's French and His Readers - Robert F. Yeager
Conjuring Gower in
Pericles - Martha W. Driver
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