Chaucer and Langland The Antagonistic Tradition |
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| Author:
| Bowers, John M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-268-02202-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2007 |
| Publisher: | University of Notre Dame Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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While Langland's poem was immediately popular and influential, it was Chaucer who stood at the head of a literary tradition within a generation of his death. Bowers asks why and how Chaucer, not Langland, was granted this position. His study reveals the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England.
While Langland's poem was immediately popular and influential, it was Chaucer who stood at the head of a literary tradition within a generation of his death. Bowers asks why and how Chaucer, not Langland, was granted this position. His study reveals the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England.