Gower's Quarrel with Chaucer, and the Origins of Bourgeois Didacticism in Fourteenth-Century London Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Galloway, Andrew.
Gower's Quarrel with Chaucer, and the Origins of Bourgeois Didacticism in Fourteenth-Century London Poetry
- Published
- Annette Harder, Alasdair A. MacDonald, and Gerrit J. Reinink, eds. Calliope's Classroom: Studies in Didactic Poetry from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Dudley, Mass.: Peeters, 2007), pp. 245-67.
- Description
- Chaucer and Gower compete in seeking to articulate political and moral ideals. Whereas Gower endorses "communal governance of the ideology of self-interest," Chaucer explores a less certain "ideal union" among political, moral, and personal forms of absolutism. Galloway examines PhyT, the tale of Lucrece (LGW), and ManT in relation to their analogues in Gower's Confessio Amantis and discusses these medieval outlooks as adumbrations of theories of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes.
- Alternative Title
- Calliope's Classroom: Studies in Didactic Poetry from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Manciple and His Tale.