Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire: The Literature of Social Classes and the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

Author/Editor
Mann, Jill.

Title
Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire: The Literature of Social Classes and the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

Published
Mann, Jill. Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire: The Literature of Social Classes and the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973.

Review
Chaucer knew well and used all of Gower's works, as Mann attempts to demonstrate through individual discussions of Chaucer's characters and of Gower's, taken from MO and VC primarily. Her concern is always to show not only likeness and dissimilarity, but also to place social context carefully as background and rationale for creation of character. [RFY1981]

Date
1973

Gower Subjects
Backgrounds and General Criticism
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Influence and Later Allusion
Mirour de l'Omme (Speculum Meditantis)
Vox Clamantis