Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising - Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381

About the author

Lynn Arner is Associate Professor of English and of Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University in Canada.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn (Brock University) Arner, Arner Lynn
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9780271058948
• ISBN: 978-0-271-05894-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literature: history & criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Literature: history and criticism