John Gower, Trilingual Poet

ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland. JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida. CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College. CATHY HUME is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol. ELISABETH DUTTON is Professor of Medieval English at Fribourg, Switzerland. NIGEL SAUL is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida.

• Introduction. John Gower: Readings in the Work of a Trilingual Poet - Elisabeth DuttonSouthwark Gower - Augustinian Agencies in Gower's Manuscripts and Texts - Some Prolegomena - Jean-Pascal PouzetThe Place of Egypt in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Ethan KnappTopical and Tropological Gower: Invoking Armenia in the Confessio Amantis - Carolyn P ColletteSaving History: Gower's Apocalyptic and the New Arion - Elliot KendallGower's Poetics of the Literal - Robert R. EdwardsRomance, Popular Style, and the Confessio Amantis: Confict or Evasion? - George ShuffletonJohn Gower: Prophet or Turncoat? - Nigel SaulThe Parliamentary Source of Gower's Cronica Tripertita and Incommensurable Styles - David R. CarlsonJohn Gower's Legal Advocacy and "In Praise of Peace" - Candace BarringtonSe-duction and Sovereign Power in Gower's Confessio Amantis book V - Andreea D. BobocThe Fifteen Stars, Stones, and Herbs: book VII of the Confessio Amantis and its Afterlife - Tamara F. O'Callaghan"Of the parfite medicine": Merita Perpetuata in Gower's Vernacular Alchemy - Stephanie L. BatkieInside Out in Gower's Republic of Letters - Karla TaylorGower's Business: Artistic Production of Cultural Capital and the Tale of Florent - Brian GastleGenius and Sensual Reading in the Vox Clamantis - Matthew W. IrvinIrony v. Paradox in the Confessio Amantis - Peter NicholsonSinning against Love in Confessio Amantis - John A. BurrowThe Woman's Response in John Gower's Cinkante Balades - Holly BarbacciaRich Words: Gower's Rime Riche in Dramatic Action - Kim ZarinsFlorent's mariage sous la potence - Richard Firth GreenWhy did Gower write the Traitié? - Cathy HumeRival Poets: Gower's Confessio and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women - John M. BowersReassessing Gower's Dream Visions - Andrew GallowayJohn Gower's French and His Readers - Robert F. YeagerConjuring Gower in Pericles - Martha W. DriverBibliography

Presents new information about Gower's work and raises new provocative questions. . It is an excellent addition to the growing scholarship.