The Rise of London Literature: Chaucer, Gower, Langland and the Poetics of the City in Late Medieval English Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Bertolet, Craig E.
The Rise of London Literature: Chaucer, Gower, Langland and the Poetics of the City in Late Medieval English Poetry
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 1766A.
- Description
- Certain qualities of fourteenth-century London created a cultural atmosphere in which a new kind of poetry flourished, emphasizing urban community and its values.
- Chaucer adapts urban poetry to debate with a wide variety of voices, depicts moral book-balancing, and shows how some characters imperil the community.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.