{"product_id":"john-gower-in-england-and-iberia-9781843843207","title":"John Gower in England and Iberia","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssays shedding fresh and significant light on Gower's poetry, major and minor, as it was received, read, and re-produced in England and in Iberia from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Gower's great poem, the \u003ci\u003eConfessio Amantis\u003c\/i\u003e, was the first work of English literature translated into any European language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts ofthe \u003ci\u003eConfessio\u003c\/i\u003e, the nineteen essays brought together here represent new and original approaches to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations. They include major studies of the palaeography of the Iberian manuscripts;of the ownership history of the Portuguese \u003ci\u003eConfessio\u003c\/i\u003e manuscript; of the glosses of Gowerian manuscripts; and of the manuscript of the Yale \u003ci\u003eConfessio Amantis\u003c\/i\u003e. Other essays situate the translations amidst Anglo-Spanish relations generally in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; examine possible Spanish influences on Gower's writing; and speculate on possible providers of the \u003ci\u003eConfessio\u003c\/i\u003e to Philippa, daughter of John of Gaunt and queenof Portugal. \u003cbr\u003e Further chapters broaden the scope of the volume. Amongst other topics, they look at Gower's use of Virgilian\/Dantean models; classical gestures in the Castilian translation; Gower's conscious contrasting of epic ideals and courtly romance; nuances of material goods and the idea of \"the good\" in the \u003ci\u003eConfessio\u003c\/i\u003e; Marxian aesthetics, Balzac, and Gowerian narrative in late medieval trading culture between England and Iberia; reading the \u003ci\u003eConfessio\u003c\/i\u003e through the lens of gift exchange; literary form in Gower's later Latin poems; Gower and Alain Chartier as international initiators of a new \"public poetry\"; and  the modern sales history of manuscript and earlyprinted copies of the \u003ci\u003eConfessio\u003c\/i\u003e, and what it reveals about literary trends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Ana Sáez Hidalgo is Associate Professor at the University of Valladolid, Spain; R.F. Yeager is Professor of English and World Languagesand chair of the department at the University of West Florida.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Contributors: María Bullón-Fernández, David R. Carlson, Siân Echard, A.S.G. Edwards, Robert R. Edwards, Tiago Viúla de Faria, Andrew Galloway, Fernando Galván, Marta María Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Mauricio Herrero Jiménez, Ethan Knapp, Roger A. Ladd, Alberto Lázaro, María Luisa López-Vidriero Abelló, Matthew McCabe, Alastair J. Minnis, Clara Pascual-Argente, Tamara Para A. Shailor, Winthrop Wetherbee","brand":"Ana Saez-Hidalgo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268355109115,"sku":"9781843843207","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843843207_24a73318-3dbc-4a64-bc84-8d23c971509b.jpg?v=1772487509","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/john-gower-in-england-and-iberia-9781843843207","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}