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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,
Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England investigates the
relationship between the development of parliament and the practice
of English poetry in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth
centuries. During this period, the bureaucratic political culture
of parliamentarians, clerks, and scribes overlapped with the
artistic practice of major poets like Chaucer, Gower, and Langland,
all of whom had strong ties to parliament. Matthew Giancarlo
investigates these poets together in the specific context of
parliamentary events and controversies, as well as in the broader
environment of changing constitutional ideas. Two chapters provide
fresh analyses of the parliamentary ideologies that developed from
the thirteenth century onward, and four chapters investigate the
parliamentary aspects of each poet, as well as the later
Lancastrian imitators of Langland. This study demonstrates the
importance of the changing parliamentary environs of late medieval
England and their centrality to the early growth of English
narrative and lyric forms.
Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England investigates the
relationship between the development of parliament and the practice
of English poetry in the later fourteenth and early fifteenth
centuries. During this period, the bureaucratic political culture
of parliamentarians, clerks, and scribes overlapped with the
artistic practice of major poets like Chaucer, Gower, and Langland,
all of whom had strong ties to parliament. Matthew Giancarlo
investigates these poets together in the specific context of
parliamentary events and controversies, as well as in the broader
environment of changing constitutional ideas. Two chapters provide
fresh analyses of the parliamentary ideologies that developed from
the thirteenth century onward, and four chapters investigate the
parliamentary aspects of each poet, as well as the later
Lancastrian imitators of Langland. This study demonstrates the
importance of the changing parliamentary environs of late medieval
England and their centrality to the early growth of English
narrative and lyric forms.
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