The topics of "selfhood" and "otherness" lie at the heart of these compelling new assessments of John Gower's poetry. Divided into three main areas - knowing the self and others; the essence of strangers; and social ethics and ethical poets - through...
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The topics of "selfhood" and "otherness" lie at the heart of these compelling new assessments of John Gower's poetry. Divided into three main areas - knowing the self and others; the essence of strangers; and social ethics and ethical poets - through this lens they examine the wide range of Gower's interests: the political, socio-economic, legal, medical, and theological issues that aroused the conscience and stirred the aesthetic of this trilingual Middle English poet. The collection also aims to clarify his place among peers and bring out his influence on subsequent writers in England and in Spain, well into the eighteenth century.
Russell A. Peck: Part I. Knowing the self and others. ; The materiality of cognition in reading, staging, and regulation of brain and heart activities in Gower's Confessio Amantis
Stephanie L. Batkie: The sound of my voice: aurality and credible faith in the Vox Clamantis
Matthew W. Irvin -- Reading faces in Gower and Chaucer: "Noght withoute peine": chastity, complaint, and Lucrece's Vox Clamantis
Helen Cooper: Gower and mortality: the ends of storytelling
Maura Nolan: Part II. The essence of strangers. ; Sensation and the plain style in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Kim Zarins -- Gower, Lydgate, and incest: Violence without warning: sympathetic villains and Gower's crafting of Ovidian narrative
R. F. Yeager: Gower's Jews
Yoshiko Kobayashi: Letters of old age: the advocacy of peace in the works of John Gower and Philippe de Mézières
Matthew Giancardo: Part III. Social ethics, ethical poetics. ; Gower's governmentality: revisiting John Gower as a constitutional thinker and regimental writer
Robert J. Meindl: Gower's Speculum Iudicis: judicial corruption in Book VI of the Vox Clamantis
Brian W. Gastle: "The Lucre of Merchandise": poet, patron, and payment in Gower's Confessio Amantis
Gabrielle Parkin: Hidden matter in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Peter Nicholson: Writing the Cinkante Balades
Ana Sáez-Hidalgo.: Gower in early modern Spanish libraries: the missing link