Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381
- Author / Editor
- Justice, Steven.
Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381
- Published
- Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1994.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 289 pp.
- Series
- New Historicism Series, no. 27.
- Description
- New-Historical exploration of the relations between late-medieval vernacular literacy and the insurgency of 1381 (Peasants' Revolt). Focuses on six brief texts concerning leaders of the revolt, treating their production, implications, and relations with contemporary writings and political conditions.
- Separate chapters consider attempts of the rebels to re-create written culture; Wycliffite influences; the role of "Piers Plowman" in the uprising; definition of classes through writing; and attitudes toward these issues in Gower, Chaucer, and Langland. The treatment of Chaucer concentrates on fragment 7 of CT, especially NPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.