Gower and the Peasants' Revolt.
- Author / Editor
- Cornelius, Ian.
Gower and the Peasants' Revolt.
- Published
- Representations 131.1 (2015): 22-51.
- Description
- Discusses John Gower's "Visio Anglie" as a departure from his usual compositional style and from his other treatments of the Revolt. Argues that specific depictions carry out a mimetic reenactment of the Revolt, rejecting the notion that Chaucer's "moral Gower" (TC, V.1856) was wholly concerned with pedantry, and asserting that "Visio Anglie" fully realizes themes present in Gower's earlier work.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations