Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594: Appropriation and the Writing of Religious Controversy
- Author / Editor
- Jones, Mike Rodman.
Radical Pastoral, 1381-1594: Appropriation and the Writing of Religious Controversy
- Published
- Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2011.
- Physical Description
- [ix], 192 pp. 8 b&w figs.
- Description
- Includes Chaucerian apocrypha, "The Plowman's Tale" and "Jack Upland," in an examination of the figure of the plowman in English early modern imagination, from "Piers Plowman" to the 1590s. Argues that there was a "highly politicized tradition of 'polemical pastoral'" in the sixteenth century, rooted in medieval satire. Notes the place in this tradition of Chaucer's alignment of Parson and Plowman in GP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Parson and His Tale