Chaucer, Gower, And The Vernacular Rising: Poetry And The Problem Of The Populace After 1381 - 9780271058948

Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes in England.

• | Author: Lynn Arner
• | Publisher: Penn State University Press
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0271058943
• | ISBN-13: 9780271058948