Elliot Kendall

Lordship and Literature

John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household

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Produktbeschreibung

In a sustained new reading of John Gower's major English poem, Confessio Amantis (1390-3), Elliot Kendall shows how deeply the great household shaped the way Gower and his contemporaries (including Chaucer, Clanvowe, chroniclers, and parliamentary petitioners) imagined their world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199542642
• ISBN-10: 0199542643
• Artikelnr.: 25043751

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The great household and an economics of power
2: The political economy in the late fourteenth century
3: Service allegory: the great household in Genius's confession
4: Courtly love and the lordship of Venus
5: Women as household exchange in Genius's tales
6: Justice and the affinity
7: Retribution as household exchange in Genius's tales
8: Total reciprocity and the problem of kingship
Conclusion