London, Southwark, Westminster.
- Author / Editor
- Galloway, Andrew.
London, Southwark, Westminster.
- Published
- Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016), 1:322-53.
- Description
- Treats London, Southwark, and Westminster as a single "conurbation," summarizing its cultural interweaving of mercantile, courtly, political, and linguistic threads, and describing its literary production and legacy. Includes discussion of Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Hoccleve, and Usk, among others, emphasizing the ways that each negotiated and represented their increasingly literate and bureaucratic world, the responsibilities of political and public poetry, and the pressures of the nascent "canonization" of English-language literature.
- Alternative Title
- Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations