Gower's Business: Artistic Production of Cultural Capital and the Tale of Florent
- Author / Editor
- Gastle, Brian.
Gower's Business: Artistic Production of Cultural Capital and the Tale of Florent
- Published
- Elisabeth Dutton, with John Hines and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 182-95.
- Description
- All of the recensions of the Prologue to "Confessio Amantis"--especially the Ricardian recension--reflect Gower's economic concerns. His Tale of Florent also engages commercial concerns, particularly those of marital contracts, although to a lesser extent than does Chaucer's WBT.
- Alternative Title
- John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations