Title: Chaucer Gower and the Vernacular Rising
Description: "Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes in England"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Gower, john, 1325-1408, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, criticism and interpretation, English poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500, Literature and society, Social classes, great britain, Literacy, history, Tyler's insurrection, 1381, Great britain, social conditions, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, Literacy, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Social classes, English poetry, Social conditions, History