John Gower
Recent Readings
Edited by R. F. Yeager
Hardback (Published)
(July 1989)
ISBN: 9780918720993
6.14 x 9.21 inches
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The 13 essays included here all represent a fresh approach by North American and European scholars to offer a representative sample of the many diverse directions taken by Gower studies today. The essays demonstrate the life still present in Gower’s work and serve as both an excellent introduction and update on the state of Gower scholarship.
In recent years, Gower’s reputation has begun to evolve. Scholars and critics have opened his books once more to discover there a talent worthy of respect, rather than something to be viewed as tedious or dull. Recently it has seemed easier to understand Chaucer’s good will toward the moral friend and fellow author into whose tutelary watchfulness he commended Troilus and Criseyde-and easier to assess the positive value Chaucer’s adjective must have borne. The thirteen essays included here all represent a fresh approach, an effort by North American and European scholars to offer a representative sample of the many diverse directions taken by Gower studies today. The essays demonstrate the life still present in Gower’s work and serve as both an excellent introduction and update on the state of Gower scholarship.
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
Nature and the Good in Gower's Confessio Amantis by Hugh White
Gather Ye Rosebuds: Gower's Comic Reply to Jean de Meun by James Dean
Genial Gower: Laughter in the Confessio Amantis by Linda Barney Burke
Constance and the World in Chaucer and Gower by Winthrop Wetherbee
Gower, Chaucer, and the Classics: Back to the Textual Evidence by Gotz Schmitz
Did Gower Write Cento? by R. F. Yeager
Gower's Source Manuscript of Nicholas Trevet's Les Cronicles by Robert M. Correale
John Gower and the Book of Daniel by Russell A. Peck
Gower's Metaethics by Michael P. Kuczynski
God's Faithfulness and the Lover's Despair: The Theological Framework of the Iphis and Araxarethan Story by David G. Allen
Aspects of Gentilesse in John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Books III-V by Kurt Olsson
The Illustrations in New College MS. 266 for Gower's Conversion Tales by Peter C. Braeger
Miniatures as Evidence of Reading in a Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS. M. 126) by Patricia Eberle
Contributors
- Edited by R. F. Yeager
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