275pp. 8vo, Sewn binding in green simulated cloth with silver gilt stamped lettering and mounted title label to front cover. Very clean, sharp copy with just a bit of rubbing to the covers. Shipped professionally in a box.

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Title

John Gower and the Structures of Conversion: A Reading of the Confessio Amantis (Publications of the John Gower Society, No. 4)

Publisher

DS Brewer

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0859913147

ISBN 13

9780859913140

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

NEAR FINE

Weight

35 ounces

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`Important book...a broad and detailed account of the structure of Confessio Amantis,' JOHN GOWER NEWSLETTER

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One of the most important studies of Gower in recent years. SPECULUM The fullest and most comprehensive attempt to account for (the poem's) diversity of structure, and offers the clearest proposal for a formal model for its interpretation. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGYA careful, patient, impeccably scholarly reading... a meticulously articulated account of the poem that views it as a serious work of moral philosopjy and exhortation. DEREK PEARSALL, MLR An important book...a broad and detailed account of the structure of Confessio Amantis, in two different senses: first the relationship among (between) among the many components of its form, and second, its thematic structure, as Gower develops his argument from the Prologue to the conclusion.' JOHN GOWER NEWSLETTERA careful, patient

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