ES 33.1 (2012)

Número extraordinario. Gower in Context(s): Scribal, Linguistic, Literary and Socio-historical Readings

Eds. lit. Laura Filardo Llamas, Brian Gastle, Marta María Gutiérrez Rodríguez & Ana Sáez Hidalgo

Part I: Manuscript Context

Ruen-Chuan Ma

Text and Gloss in Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Christine de Pizan’s Épître Othéa: Vernacular «Accessus»

17-28

Tamara Pérez Fernández

The Margins in the Iberian Manuscripts of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis: Language, Authority and Readership

29-44

Rosemarie McGerr

Gower’s Confessio and the Nova statuta Angliae: Royal Lessons in English Law

45-65

Part II: Socio-historical Context

Jerome Mandel

Conflict Resolution in the «Wife of Bath’s Tale» and in Gower’s «Tale of Florent»

69-79

Misty Schieberle

Love and Fortune in Book I of the Confessio Amantis: Controlling the Uncontrollable

81-96

Katie Peebles

John Gower’s Leveraging of Spain in English Politics: Arguing from Foreign Grounds

97-113

Part III: Literary and Linguistic Context

Linda Barney Burke John Gower, Christine de Pizan, and the Tradition of Elijah the Prophet: «The Voice of One Crying»	117-135
Annika Farber Genius and the Practice of Ethical Reading	137-153
Malte Urban Gower’s Poetics on the Edge: Cracks and Fissures	155-170
Emily Houlik-Ritchey «Saracens» in John Gower and Juan de Cuenca: Rewriting Difference	171-189