Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager.
- Author/Editor
- Chewning, Susannah Mary, ed.
- Title
- Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager.
- Published
- Chewning, Susannah Mary, ed. Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of R. F. Yeager. Publications of the John Gower Society, no. XIII. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020.
- Review
- This collection of fifteen essays is offered as a tribute to the remarkable career of R. F. Yeager. As the editor suggests, "[w]ithout R. F. Yeager's influence, Gower studies simply would not exist as it currently does within Medieval Studies, and the field would be lessened by that absence" (2). The collection is organized into five sections: TEXT (A.S.G. Edwards, "Edward Thomas on Gower;" Derek Pearsall, "The Sutherland Fragment of Gower's 'Confessio Amantis';" Stephanie L. Batkie and Matthew W. Irvin, "Incarnational Making in ‘Vox Clamantis' II"); GENDER (Russell A. Peck, "Patriarchy, Family, and Law in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis';" Peter Nicholson, "Gower's Ballades for Women;" Martha W. Driver, "John Gower and the Artists of M. 126"); TIME (Andrew Galloway, "Gower in Striped Sleeves: 'Mirour de l'Omme' as Gower's Early Humanism;" David A. Roberts, "What's in a Name: History, Genre, and Political Speech in Gower's 'Cronica Tripertita';" William Rogers, "Studies in Gower's Age: Ciceronian Echoes in 'Confessio Amantis’"); SPIRIT (Natalie Grinnell, "Gower's Light: The Ecology of 'De Lucis Scrutinio';" Michael P. Kuczynski, "Gower, Chaucer and the 'Treuth of Prestehode';" Roger A. Ladd, "'To Hear an Old Man Sing': Apollonius, Pericles and the Age of Gower") and INTERSECTIONS (Brian W. Gastle, "The Constraints of Justice and Gower's 'Lawyerly Habit of Mind';" Richard Firth Green, "A Poet at Work: John Gower's Revisions to the 'Tale of Rosiphilee'"), concluding with the editor's "Personal Tribute to R. F. Yeager" and a full Bibliography of R. F. Yeager's writings [EK. Copyright. The John Gower Society eJGN 40.1]
- Date
- 2020
- Gower Subjects
- Backgrounds and General Criticism