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Essays illuminating Gower's work, the transmission and reception of Gowerian manuscripts and early printings, and his afterlife in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The fourteenth-century English poet John Gower was acutely aware of the value of words and books in the making of heritage. Judging from the record he left behind - in manuscript and in stone - he focused considerable effort in his later years on shaping how subsequent generations would remember him. The contributors to this volume take Gower's consciousness of posterity's judgment as a starting point for essays on a compelling range of topics: Gower's thoughts on the sublime,his views on peace, his idealisation of marriage, his responses to antecedents ranging from Ovid's love poetry to the pastoral handbook tradition, and his engagements with contemporaries as diverse as Deschamps and Wyclif. Meanwhile, fresh discoveries about manuscripts and early printing history illuminate how posterity actually began to judge the poet.
Contents
Introduction
I. Textual and literary genealogies
1. Gower and the Sublime
Robert R. Edwards
2. John Gower and the Wycliffite Bible
Michael P. Kuczynski
3. Confessio Peccatoris: Gower and the Influence of Handlyng Synne
Lucy Turton
4. The Influence of Eustache Deschamps' "balades morales" in the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz
Clotilde Dauphant
5. John Gower's Word-Formations in Middle English: A Case Study of Confessio Amantis
Kerstin Majewski
II. Material texts and heritage
6. Northern Gower: How the Trentham Manuscript was Brought from Scotland
Margaret Connolly
7. Adding and Subtracting: Dealing with Damage in Gower Manuscripts
Siân Echard
8. Thomas Tyrwhitt's copy of the Confessio Amantis: readings and annotations
Ana Sáez-Hidalgo
9. John Gower and the Communities of Lay Tenants in London's Religious Houses
Caroline M. Barron and Martha Carlin
III. Morality, sacramentality
10. Gower's Constantine: Between Hagiography and Morality
Ann W. Astell
11. Gower's "Honeste Love" Revisited
Alastair Minnis
12. Which Ovid Did Gower Use for the Confessio Amantis?
Taylor Cowdery
13. Sacramental Views of Peace and Marriage in the Poems of the Trentham Manuscript
Yoshiko Kobayashi
14. Touching Upon Sin: The "Tale of Acteon" as Primum Mobile for Gower's Confessio Amantis
Brian Gastle
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