Description: A Companion to Gower by Siân Echard (Editor), A.G Rigg (Contributor), Ardis Butterfield (Contributor), Derek Pearsall (Contributor)D.S. Brewer, Cambridge, 2004. First Edition. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, previous owner's signature to ffep (Prof. Russell E. Peck), clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, index, 286 pages. 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, covering Gower's works in all three of his languages; they consider his relationships to his literary sources, and to his social, material and historical contexts; and they offer an overview of the manuscript, linguistic, and editorial traditions. Five essays concentrate specifically on the Confessio Amantis, Gower's major Middle English work, reading it in terms of its relationship to vernacular and classical models, its poetic style, and its treatment of such themes as politics, kingship, gender, sexuality, authority, authorship and self-governance. A reference bibliography, arranged as a chronology of criticism, concludes the volume.Contributors J.A. BURROW, ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, NATHALIE COHEN, E.H. COOPER, SIAN ECHARD, ROBERT EPSTEIN, JOHN HINES, EDWARD MOORE, DEREK PEARSALL, RUSSELL PECK, A.G. RIGG, SIMON ROFFEY, JEREMY J. SMITH, DIANE WATT, WINTHROP WETHERBEE, ROBERT F. YEAGER.SIAN ECHARD is associate professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia.The Companion can serve as an introduction to Gower and his works for the advanced undergraduate or graduate student, and the essays will also be of interest to experts in Middle English studies and in Gower.From the library of Russell A. Peck, a legendary & beloved English teacher who taught longer than any professor in the history of the University of Rochester.The John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Literature, Peck was internationally known as an authority on Middle English literature, especially works by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Malory. Peck edited the seminal three volume edition of John Gower’s The Confessio Amantis and explicated it in his book Kingship and Common Profit. Peck had broad academic interests and publications ranging from Arthurian romance, folklore, and fairy tales, to film, cognitive theory and pedagogy. Peck’s research was supported and honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Medieval Academy of America. Loc: E16StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackJOHN GOWER MEDIEVAL LITERATURE POETRY MANUSCRIPTS CONFESSIO AMANTIS LATIN WORKS A Companion to Gower by Siân Echard (Editor), A.G Rigg (Contributor), Ardis Butterfield (Contributor), Derek Pearsall (Contributor)D.S. Brewer, Cambridge, 2004. First Edition. Very good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, previous owner's signature to ffep (Prof. Russell E. Peck), clean unmarked text. Illustrated, 8vo, index, 286 pages. 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, covering Gower's works in all three of his languages; they consider his relationships to his literary sources, and to his social, material and historical contexts; and they offer an overview of the manuscript, linguistic, and editorial traditions. Five essays concentrate specifically on the Confessio Amantis, Gower's major Middle English work, reading it in terms of its relationship to vernacular and classical models, its poetic style, and its treatment of such themes as politics, kingship, gender, sexuality, authority, authorship and self-governance. A reference bibliography, arranged as a chronology of criticism, concludes the volume.Contributors J.A. BURROW, ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, NATHALIE COHEN, E.H. COOPER, SIAN ECHARD, ROBERT EPSTEIN, JOHN HINES, EDWARD MOORE, DEREK PEARSALL, RUSSELL PECK, A.G. RIGG, SIMON ROFFEY, JEREMY J. SMITH, DIANE WATT, WINTHROP WETHERBEE, ROBERT F. YEAGER.SIAN ECHARD is associate professor, Department of English, University of British Columbia.The Companion can serve as an introduction to Gower and his works for the advanced undergraduate or graduate student, and the essays will also be of interest to experts in Middle English studies and in Gower.From the library of Russell A. Peck, a legendary & beloved English teacher who taught longer than any professor in the history of the University of Rochester.The John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Literature, Peck was internationally known as an authority on Middle English literature, especially works by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Malory. Peck edited the seminal three volume edition of John Gower’s The Confessio Amantis and explicated it in his book Kingship and Common Profit. Peck had broad academic interests and publications ranging from Arthurian romance, folklore, and fairy tales, to film, cognitive theory and pedagogy. Peck’s research was supported and honored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Medieval Academy of America. Loc: E16
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