Conlee, John W.
American Notes and Queries 12.9-10 (1974): 137-38.
Tallies similarities between RvT and a section in John Barth's novel "Sot-Weed Factor" that indicate direct influence: cast of characters, setting, straying-horse motif, etc.
Winstead, Karen A.
Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 389-400.
Though Capgrave's "Life of St. Katherine" does not mention Chaucer or his characters and does not quote from Chaucer's texts, it bears a marked similarity to the technique of TC. Capgrave seems interested in issues raised by Chaucer but not, like…
Relates the GP portraits to the philosophy of realism expressed by Scotus and Peirce. Chaucer's realism is especially like Peirce's in its emphasis on behavior, historical coordinates, and the use of lively action or dynamic process to define the…
Boro, Joyce.
Mary Ellen Lamb and Valerie Wayne, eds. Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare (New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. 188-202.
Includes comments on Fletcher's sources for his "Women Pleased": WBT and "Grisel y Mirabella" by Juan de Flores.
Crocker, Holly A.
New Medieval Literatures 15 (2015, for 2013): 149-82.
Argues that John Foxe's chronological techniques, "expressive affinities," and "affective connections" in "Actes and Monuments" (a.k.a. the "Book of Martyrs") are "relevant to what is increasingly called 'post-historicist' criticism in medieval…
Milosh, Joseph.
Contemporary Literature 19 (1978): 48-57.
Gardner strikingly alters "Beowulf" by granting Grendel spiritual development, by portraying the absurdity of war, and by undercutting the validity of poetic making. The changes transforms epic material into an elusive genre characterized by its…
In an analysis of Gower's legal associations, examines how Chaucer uses "jurisprudential topoi" in CT, particularly in SumT. Also discusses law in FrT, PardT, and Mel.
Examines the ways in which Gower and Chaucer use their source material differently. Gower uses Ovid to emphasize morality while Chaucer uses Ovid to explore both the courtly and the romantic.
Dutton, Elisabeth, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010.
Twenty-five essays by various authors and an introduction by Dutton, with a cumulative bibliography and index. The volume was inspired by the first international congress of the John Gower Society (2008). The essays range widely in Gower…
Fisher, John H.
New York: New York University Press, 1964.
Describes the development of John Gower's critical reputation, his life records, his literary career (including attention to manuscripts, sequence of composition, and revisions), the major social and political themes of his works, and his…
Peck, Russell A., and R. F. Yeager, eds.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017. viii, 381 pp.
Collects sixteen essays from the Third International Congress of the John Gower Society and divides into three groups: Part 1, "Knowing the Self and Others"; Part 2, "The Essence of Strangers"; Part 3, "Social Ethics, Ethical Poetics." The collection…
Yeager, R. F.
R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse, eds. Speaking Images: Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve (Asheville, N.C.: Pegasus Press, 2001), pp. 525-57.
Yeager contrasts Gower's uses of imagery in the 'Tale of Constance" with Chaucer's techniques in MLT, arguing that Gower is more minimalist, but that, like Chaucer, Gower challenges readers to discover the moral implications of the world he…
Examines Gower's efforts to establish his reputation as a poet. Frequently using Chaucer for comparison or contrast, Yeager explores Gower's stylistics, his concerns with audience, his relations with French tradition and particular sources, his…
Jamison, Carol.
Richard G. Newhauser and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins (Woodbridge: The University of York/York Medieval Press, 2012), pp. 239-59.
Uses MLT and Trevet's version of the Constance story to show how Gower "infused" his Constance story in the "Confessio Amantis" with "pastoral rhetoric in order to transform Constance into a representative of Charity" and thereby offer an "'exemplum…
Explores the reception of John Gower as an alchemist in the sixteenth century, including description of Elias Ashmole's notion that Gower was Chaucer's "master" and "mentor" in alchemical science.
Esch, Arno.
Arno Esch, ed. Chaucer und Seine Zeit: Symposion für Walter F. Schirmer (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1968), pp. 207-39.
Assesses Gower's artistry in several tales of the "Confessio Amantis," including analysis of Gower's tale of Constance in comparison with Trevet's version and Chaucer's MLT. Argues that Gower's tale is more unified than Chaucer's and more purely…
A biography of John Hawley that concludes by arguing (pp. 147-55) that Hawley was at the center of a number of satirical allusions in Chaucer's GP description of the Shipman. Chaucer depicts a professional mariner, which Hawley was not, but the…
McDonald, Craig.
Studies in Scottish Literature 21 (1986): 23-34.
A close examination of Ireland's references to Melibeus suggests that, despite differences in contest and moral lesson, Ireland used Chaucer's version as his source.
Underwood, Verne Michael.
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 1155A.
Lane's previously unedited and unprinted pastoral poem of 1621, modeled on Spenser's "Shepheardes Calender", follows Chaucer in using verse narratives of varying genres (e.g., fabliau and romance) to illustrate its themes (the vices of the age;…
Pearsall, John.
London: Routledge and K. Paul; Charlottesville, N.C.: University of Virginia Press, 1970.
Combines literary biography with genre-study to assess the poetry of John Lydgate, particularly his conventionality and craftsmanship, his techniques of amplification and idealization, his commonplaces and "categories of thought," internal and…
Pearsall, Derek.
Victoria: University of Victoria, 1997.
A documentary biography of Lydgate that prints and places in context his life-records and includes a bibliography of his major works, modern editions, and essential secondary studies. The biography includes recurrent mention of where and how…
Kamath, Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs.
Chaucer Review 45 (2010): 32-58.
In both "Reson and Sensuallyte" and "Troy Book," Lydgate establishes the literary authority of English poetry by placing it in the "allegorical landscape" of the "Roman de la Rose." He frequently follows Chaucer's "method of Rose citation," while…
