Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Editorial Note
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Southwark Gower: Augustinian Agencies in Gower’s Manuscripts and Texts – Some Prolegomena
- Chapter 2 The Place of Egypt in Gower’s Confessio Amantis
- Chapter 3 Topical and Tropological Gower: Invoking Armenia in the Confessio Amantis
- Chapter 4 Saving History: Gower’s Apocalyptic and the New Arion
- Chapter 5 Gower’s Poetics of the Literal
- Chapter 6 Romance, Popular Style and the Confessio Amantis: Conflict or Evasion?
- Chapter 7 John Gower: Prophet or Turncoat?
- Chapter 8 The Parliamentary Source of Gower’s Cronica Tripertita and Incommensurable Styles
- Chapter 9 John Gower’s Legal Advocacy and ‘In Praise of Peace’
- Chapter 10 Se-duction and Sovereign Power in Gower’s Confessio Amantis Book V
- Chapter 11 The Fifteen Stars, Stones and Herbs: Book VII of the Confessio Amantis and its Afterlife
- Chapter 12 ‘Of the parfite medicine’: Merita Perpetuata in Gower’s Vernacular Alchemy
- Chapter 13 Inside Out in Gower’s Republic of Letters
- Chapter 14 Gower’s Business: Artistic Production of Cultural Capital and the Tale of Florent
- Chapter 15 Genius and Sensual Reading in the Vox Clamantis
- Chapter 16 Irony v. Paradox in the Confessio Amantis
- Chapter 17 Sinning Against Love in Confessio Amantis
- Chapter 18 The Woman’s Response in John Gower’s Cinkante Balades
- Chapter 19 Rich Words: Gower’s Rime Riche in Dramatic Action
- Chapter 20 Florent’s Mariage sous la potence
- Chapter 21 Why did Gower Write the Traitié?
- Chapter 22 Rival Poets: Gower’s Confessio and Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
- Chapter 23 Reassessing Gower’s Dream-Visions
- Chapter 24 John Gower’s French and His Readers
- Chapter 25 Conjuring Gower in Pericles
- Bibliography
- Index
Editorial Note
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Editorial Note
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Southwark Gower: Augustinian Agencies in Gower’s Manuscripts and Texts – Some Prolegomena
- Chapter 2 The Place of Egypt in Gower’s Confessio Amantis
- Chapter 3 Topical and Tropological Gower: Invoking Armenia in the Confessio Amantis
- Chapter 4 Saving History: Gower’s Apocalyptic and the New Arion
- Chapter 5 Gower’s Poetics of the Literal
- Chapter 6 Romance, Popular Style and the Confessio Amantis: Conflict or Evasion?
- Chapter 7 John Gower: Prophet or Turncoat?
- Chapter 8 The Parliamentary Source of Gower’s Cronica Tripertita and Incommensurable Styles
- Chapter 9 John Gower’s Legal Advocacy and ‘In Praise of Peace’
- Chapter 10 Se-duction and Sovereign Power in Gower’s Confessio Amantis Book V
- Chapter 11 The Fifteen Stars, Stones and Herbs: Book VII of the Confessio Amantis and its Afterlife
- Chapter 12 ‘Of the parfite medicine’: Merita Perpetuata in Gower’s Vernacular Alchemy
- Chapter 13 Inside Out in Gower’s Republic of Letters
- Chapter 14 Gower’s Business: Artistic Production of Cultural Capital and the Tale of Florent
- Chapter 15 Genius and Sensual Reading in the Vox Clamantis
- Chapter 16 Irony v. Paradox in the Confessio Amantis
- Chapter 17 Sinning Against Love in Confessio Amantis
- Chapter 18 The Woman’s Response in John Gower’s Cinkante Balades
- Chapter 19 Rich Words: Gower’s Rime Riche in Dramatic Action
- Chapter 20 Florent’s Mariage sous la potence
- Chapter 21 Why did Gower Write the Traitié?
- Chapter 22 Rival Poets: Gower’s Confessio and Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
- Chapter 23 Reassessing Gower’s Dream-Visions
- Chapter 24 John Gower’s French and His Readers
- Chapter 25 Conjuring Gower in Pericles
- Bibliography
- Index
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- John Gower, Trilingual PoetLanguage, Translation, and Tradition, pp. viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010