Chaucer and Langland

by Bowers, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780268022020
• ISBN10: 026802202X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Author Biography

John M. Bowers is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: The Antagonistic Tradition	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 43
Langland and 1360	p. 43
Chaucer and 1360	p. 49
Naming Names: "Langland" and "Chaucer"	p. 54
Naming William Langland	p. 56
Langland's Editorial Lives	p. 64
Definitely Geoffrey Chaucer	p. 80
Piers Plowman and the Impulse to Antagonism	p. 103
John Ball, John Wyclif, and "Peres Ploughman"	p. 103
Piers Plowman Before 1381, Piers Plowman After 1381	p. 115
The Public Life of Piers Plowman	p. 122
Context as Criticism	p. 135
Langlandian Writers and Lollard Causes	p. 144
Political Corrections: The Canterbury Tales	p. 157
The Cook	p. 162
The Plowman	p. 167
Pilgrimage Narrative: Canterbury Interlude	p. 173
The Pardoner	p. 180
The House of Chaucer & Son: The Business of Lancastrian Canon-Formation	p. 183
Thomas Hoccleve: The Insider Locked Out	p. 190
John Lydgate: The Outsider Let In	p. 202
The Monk: Prologue to the Siege of Thebes	p. 206
Piers Plowman, Print, and Protestantism	p. 216
Notes	p. 229
Works Cited	p. 331
General Index	p. 389
Manuscripts Index	p. 403
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