Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager

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ISBN 10: 1843845466 / ISBN 13: 9781843845461

Published by BOYDELL & BREWER INC, 2020

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Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 277 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager
• Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER INC
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843845466
• ISBN 13: 9781843845461
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

New perspectives on one of the most important medieval poets.

The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular topics addressed include Gower's revisions to the Tale ofRosiphilee; theological and philosophical positions within Gower's work; the violence of manuscript images of Confessio Amantis; and the views of a fellow poet on Gower - Edward Thomas.

About the Authors

SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING is Senior Professor of English, Union County College.

A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.