Chaucer Gower and the Vernacular Rising

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"Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes in England"--Provided by publisher.

subjects: Gower, john, 1325-1408,  Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, criticism and interpretation,  English poetry, history and criticism, middle english, 1100-1500,  Literature and society,  Social classes, great britain,  Literacy, history,  Tyler's insurrection, 1381,  Great britain, social conditions,  Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400,  Literacy,  History and criticism,  Criticism and interpretation,  Social classes,  English poetry,  Social conditions,  History