Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household
- Author / Editor
- Kendall, Elliot.
Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household
- Published
- Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xii, 301 pp.
- Description
- Studies the "lordship economics" of late fourteenth-century England, especially as represented in the literature of John Gower, but providing historical and political backgrounds, and commenting on similar concerns in Chaucer and other writers. Includes observations about PF, MLT, and the use of the term "bachelor" as applied to the Squire and in ClT, and explores courtly lordship in LGWP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls
- Legend of Good Women
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Squire and His Tale
- Clerk and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies