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The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most
current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors
purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into
three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and
modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame
Gower's work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric,
theology, and religious attitudes, to approaches incorporating
gender and queer studies. The second part, "Things and places:
material cultures," examines the cultural locations of the author,
not only from geographical and political perspectives, or in
scientific and economic context, but also in the transmission of
his poetry through the materiality of the text and its reception.
"Polyvocality: text and language," the third part, focuses on
Gower's trilingualism, his approach to history, and narratological
and intertextual aspects of his works. The Routledge Research
Companion to John Gower is an essential resource for scholars and
students of Gower and of Middle English literature, history, and
culture generally.
New essays on aspects of Gower's poetry, viewed through the lens of
the self and beyond. The topics of "selfhood" and "otherness" lie
at the heart of these new assessments of John Gower's poetry. The
first part of the book, on knowing the self and others, focuses on
cognition, brain functions, imagination, and the internal and
external factors that affect one's sense of being, from sensation
and inner emotive effects within body parts to cosmic perspectives,
morality, and theology as voiced by language and storytelling. The
second, on the essence of strangers, explores the interconnections
of sensation and aesthetics; it also considers kinds of social
dysfunction, whether through racial or gender conflict, or
religious and political warfare.The final part of the booklooks at
social ethics and ethical poets, reassessing two of Gower's
perpetual concerns: honest government and honest craft. It
considers Gower as a constitutional thinker, whether in terms of
law, judicial corruption, or a society of businessmen who would
rewrite ethics in terms of business models. It concludes with an
examination of the Confessio in the culture of Portugal and Spain.
Russell Peck is the John Hall Deane Professor of English at the
University of Rochester: R. F. Yeager is Professor of English at
the University of West Florida. Contributors: Stephanie L. Batkie,
Helen Cooper, Brian W. Gastle, Matthew Giancarlo, Matthew W. Irvin,
Yoshiko Kobayashi, Robert J. Meindl, Peter Nicholson, Maura Nolan,
Gabrielle Parkin, Russell A. Peck, Ana Saez-Hidalgo, Larry Scanlon,
Karla Taylor, Kim Zarins, R.F. Yeager,
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most
current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors
purposefully to research areas of the future. It is divided into
three parts. The first part, "Working theories: medieval and
modern," is devoted to the main theoretical aspects that frame
Gower's work, ranging from his use of medieval law, rhetoric,
theology, and religious attitudes, to approaches incorporating
gender and queer studies. The second part, "Things and places:
material cultures," examines the cultural locations of the author,
not only from geographical and political perspectives, or in
scientific and economic context, but also in the transmission of
his poetry through the materiality of the text and its reception.
"Polyvocality: text and language," the third part, focuses on
Gower's trilingualism, his approach to history, and narratological
and intertextual aspects of his works. The Routledge Research
Companion to John Gower is an essential resource for scholars and
students of Gower and of Middle English literature, history, and
culture generally.
New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of
medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices
he used and the discourses in which he participated. John Gower
wrote in three languages - Latin, French, and English - and their
considerable and sometimes competing significance in
fourteenth-century England underlies his trilingualism. The essays
collected in this volume start from Gower as trilingual poet,
exploring Gower's negotiations between them - his adaptation of
French sources into his Latin poetry, for example - as well as the
work of medieval translators who made Gower's French poetry
availablein English. "Translation" is also considered more broadly,
as a "carrying over" (its etymological sense) between genres,
registers, and contexts, with essays exploring Gower's acts of
translation between the idioms of varied literary and non-literary
forms; and further essays investigate Gower's writings from
literary, historical, linguistic, and codicological perspectives.
Overall, the volume bears witness to Gower's merit and his
importance to English literary history, and increases our
understanding of French and Latin literature composed in England;
it also makes it possible to understand and to appreciate fully the
shape and significance of Gower's literary achievement and
influence, which have sometimes suffered in comparison to Chaucer.
ELISABETH DUTTON is Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.
Contributors: Elisabeth Dutton, Jean Pascal Pouzet, Ethan Knapp,
Carolyn P. Collette,Elliot Kendall, Robert R. Edwards, George
Shuffleton, Nigel Saul, David Carlson, Candace Barrington, Andreea
Boboc, Tamara F. O'Callaghan, Stephanie Batkie, Karla Taylor, Brian
Gastle, Matthew Irvin, Peter Nicholson, J.A. Burrow,Holly
Barbaccia, Kim Zarins, Richard F. Green, Cathy Hume, John Bowers,
Andrew Galloway, R.F. Yeager, Martha Driver
Essays considering the relationship between Gower's texts and the
physical ways in which they were first manifested. The media in
which Gower's works were first transmitted, whether in print of
manuscript form, are of vital importance to an understanding of
both the poet and his audience. However, in comparison with those
of his contemporary Chaucer, they have been relatively little
studied. This volume represents a major collaboration between
specialist scholars in manuscript and book history, and experts in
Gower more generally, breaking new ground in approaching Gower
through first-hand study of his publications in manuscript and
print. Its chapters consider such matters as manuscript and book
illumination, provenance, variant texts and editions, scribes, and
printers, looking at how, and to what degree, the materiality of
the vellum, paper, ink and binding illuminates - and even
implicates - the poet and his poetry. MARTHA DRIVER is
Distinguished Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies
at Pace University; the late DEREK PEARSALL was Gurney Professor of
English Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University; R.F. YEAGER Is
Professor of English and Foreign Languages, Emeritus, University of
West Florida. Contributors: Stephanie L. Batkie, Julia Boffey,
Margaret Connolly, Sian Echard, A.S.G. Edwards, Robert Epstein,
Brian W. Gastle, Amanda J. Gerber, Yoshiko Kobayashi, Aditi Nafde,
Tamara Perez-Fernandez, Wendy Scase, Karla Taylor, David Watt.
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.
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