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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Chaucer’s and Gower’s Early Readership Expanded
2 Against the Greyness of the Multitude: Poetry, Prestige, and the Confessio Amantis
3 Time After Time: Historiography and Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
4 In Defense of Cupid: Poetics, Gender, and the Legend of Good Women
5 Chaucer on the Effects of Poetry
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“This study represents a welcome consideration of two major poets’ responses to a moment of substantial social upheaval, suggesting provocatively that the Rising had important ramifications for English literary culture not only in its own time, but also for the present day. Arner’s book will be of interest to the many scholars invested in the legacies of 1381, as well as those interested more broadly in the interplay of poetry, politics, and literacy in later medieval England. This book also invites further work on classical reception among the growing ranks of nonelite readers during this period, an exciting endeavor that Arner’s study proves can produce stimulating results.”
—Leah Klement, Speculum
