John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books

Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.

List of contents

Introduction - Martha W. Driver and Derek Pearsall and Robert F. Yeager
John Gower's Scribes and Literatim Copying - Wendy Scase
Looking for Richard: Finding "Moral Gower" in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 92 - Stephanie L. Batkie
A State above All Other: The Recensions of Confessio Amantis and the Anthropology of Sovereignty - Robert Epstein
What Lies Beneath - Karla Taylor
Earthly Gower: Transforming Geographical Texts and Images in the Confessio Amantis and Vox Clamantis Manuscripts - Amanda J. Gerber
Paratextual Deviations: The Transmission and Translation of Gower's Confessio Amantis in the Iberian Peninsula - Tamara Peréz-Fernández
"Mescreantz," Schism, and the Plight of Constantinople: Evidence for Dating and Reading London, British Library, Additional MS 59495 - David Watt
John Shirley and John Gower - Margaret Connolly
Gower between Manuscript and Print - Sian Echard
Gower from Print to Manuscript: Copying Caxton in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 51 - Aditi Nafde
A Caxton Confessio: Readers and Users from Westminster to Chapel Hill - Brian Gastle
English Poets in Print: Advertising Authorship from Caxton to Berthelet - Julia Boffey
In Praise of European Peace: Gower's Verse Epistle in Thynne's 1532 Edition of Chaucer's Workes - Yoshiko Kobayashi
George Campbell Macaulay and the Clarendon Edition of Gower - A S G Edwards
Bibliography

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Martha Driver, Derek Pearsall, R.F. Yeager

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Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the physical ways in which they were first manifested.

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• Authors: Martha Driver, A S G Edwards, Aditi Nafde, Derek Pearsall, R.F. Yeager
• Assisted by: Martha Driver (Editor), Martha W Driver (Editor), Martha W. Driver (Editor), Martha W. (Contributor) Driver (Editor), Derek Pearsall (Editor), R F Yeager (Editor), R. F. Yeager (Editor), R.F. Yeager (Editor), Robert F Yeager (Editor), Robert F. Yeager (Editor), Robert F. (Customer) Yeager (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781843845539
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-553-9
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 630 g
• Series: Publications of the John Gower Society; Publications of the John Gower
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies