Primary Texts

Glaser, Joseph, ed. and trans. Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 2007. Print.

Yeager, R. F., ed. and trans. John Gower: The Minor Latin Works, with In Praise of Peace. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2005. Print.

Yeager, R. F. John Gower: The French Balades. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, 2011. Print.

Yeager, R. F. "John Gower, The French Balades: Introduction" TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2012.

Yeager, R. F. "John Gower, Traitie Selonc Les Auctours Pour Essampler Les Amantz Maretz: Introduction" TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2012.

Yeager, R. F. "John Gower, Cinkante Balades: Introduction" TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2012.

Secondary Scholarship

Anthologies

Dutton, Elizabeth, John Hines, and R. F. Yeager, eds. John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, Tradition. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010. Print.

Filardo-Llamas, Laura and Brian Gastle with Marta Gutiérrez Rodríguez, eds. Gower in Context(s). Scribal, Linguistic, Literary and Socio-historical Readings. Special issue of ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa 33.1 (2012). Print.

Urban, Malte, ed. John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Disputatio 13. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. 2010. Print.

Yeager, R. F., ed. On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Studies in Medieval Culture 46. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. Print.

Yeager, R. F. and Brian Gastle, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America, 2011. Print.

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Monographs

Butterfield, Ardis. The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.

Carlson, David R. John Gower:  Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England. Publications of the John Gower Society 7. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2012.

Kendall, Elliot. Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household. Oxford: Clarendon, 2008. Print.

Kennedy, Kathleen E. Maintenance, meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Print.

Ladd, Roger A. Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Print.

McCabe, T. Matthew N. Gower's Vulgar Tongue: Ovid, Lay Religion, and English Poetry in the Confessio Amantis. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011. Print.

Mitchell, J. Allan. Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Print.

Nicholson, Peter. Love & Ethics in Gower's Confessio Amantis. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2005. Print.

Staley, Lynn. Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2005. Print.

Urban, Malte. Fragments: Past and Present in Chaucer and Gower. Bern: Peter Lang AG, 2009. Print.

Van Dijk, Conrad. John Gower and the Limits of the Law. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013. Print.

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On Gower's French Works

Cinkante Balades

Barbaccia, Holly. "The Woman's Response in Gower's Cinkante Ballades." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 230-238. Print.

Butterfield, Ardis.  The Familiar Enemy:  Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.

Yeager, R. F. "John Gower’s Audience: The Ballades." Chaucer Review 40.1 (2005): 81-105. Print.

Yeager, R. F. "Gower's Triple Tongue (2): Teaching the Balades." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 100-103. Print.

Mirour de l'Omme

Billy, Dominique, and Martin J. Duffell. "Le Decasyllable de John Gower ou Le Dernier Metre Anglo-Normand." Revue de Linguistique romane 69 (2005): 75-95. Print.

Giancarlo, Matthew. "The Septvauns Affair, Purchase and Parliament in John Gower's Mirour de l'Omme." Viator 36 (2005): 435-464. Print.

Yeager, R. F. "Gower’s French Audience: The Mirour de l’Omme." Chaucer Review 41 (2006): 111-137. Print.

Traitie pour essampler les amantz marietz

Gilbert, Jane. "Men Behaving Badly: Linguistic Purity and Sexual Perversity in Derrida’s Le Monolinguisme de l’autre and Gower’s Traitie pour essampler les amantz marietz." Romance Studies 24 (2006): 77-89. Print.

Hume, Cathy."Why Did Gower Write the Traitié?" John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 263-275. Print.

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On Gower's Latin Works

 

Carlson, David R. "A Rhyme Distribution Chronology of John Gower's Latin Poetry. Studies in Philology 104 (2007): 15-55.

Cronica Tripertita

Carlson, David R. "Gower on Henry IV's Rule: The Endings of the Cronica Tripertita and its Texts." Traditio 62 (2007): 207-36. Print.

----------. "The Parliamentary Source of Gower's Cronica Tripertita and Incommensurable Styles." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 98-111. Print.

Vox Clamantis

Carlson, David R. "Gower’s Beast Allegories in the 1381 Visio Anglie." Philological Quarterly 87.3-4 (2008): 257-275. Print.

Irvin, Matthew. "Genius and Sensual Reading in the Vox Clamantis." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 196-205. Print.

Kobayashi, Yoshiko. "The Voice of an Exile: From Ovidan Lament to Prophecy in Book I of John Gower's Vox Clamantis." Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee. Ed. Andrew Galloway and R.F. Yeager. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 363-380. Print.

Nolan, Maura. "The Poetics of Catastrophe: Ovidian Allusion in Gower's Vox Clamantis." Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann. Ed. Christopher Cannon and Maura Nolan. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011. 113-133. Print.

Salisbury, Eve. "Violence and the Sacrificial Poet: Gower, the Vox, and the Critics." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 124-143. Print.

Urban, Malte. "Past and Present: Gower’s Use of Old Books in Vox Clamantis." John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Urban. 175-194. Print.

van Dijk, Conrad. "Simon Sudbury and Helenus in John Gower’s Vox Clamantis." Medium Ævum 77 (2008): 313-318. Print.

Zarins, Kim. "From Head to Foot: Syllabic Play and Metamorphosis in Book I of Gower’s Vox Clamantis." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 144-160. Print.

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On Gower's Middle English Works

Confessio Amantis:

Allen, Elizabeth. "Newfangled Readers in Gower’s ‘Apollonius of Tyre.’" Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007): 419-464. Print.

Bakalian, Ellen S. "Using Reason to Change Their Worlds: The Tale of Rosiphlee and the Tale of Alceone in John Gower's Confessio Amantis." Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations. Ed. Kathleen A. Bishop. New Castle Upon Tyre, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. Print.

Banchich, Claire. "Holy Fear and Poetics in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Book I." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 188-215. Print.

Batkie, Stephanie L. "’Of the parfite medicine‘: Merita Perpetuata in Gower's Vernacular Alchemy." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 157-68. Print.

Beidler, Peter G. "Gower in Seminar: The Confessio Amantis as Publishing Opportunity for Graduate Students." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 202-208. Print.

Boboc, Andreea. "Se-duction and Sovereign Power in Gower's Confessio Amantis Book V." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 126-38. Print.

Bratcher, James T. "Gower’s ‘Tale of Three Questions’ and ‘The Clever Peasant Girl’ Folktale." Notes & Queries 53 (2006): 409-410. Print.

----------. "The Function of the Jeweled Bridle in Gower’s ‘Tale of Rosiphelee.’" Chaucer Review 40.1 (2005): 107-110. Print.

Breuer, Heidi.  Crafting the Witch:  Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England.  New York and London:  Routledge, 2009. Print.

Bullón-Fernández, María. "Gender, Sexuality, and Family Ties in the Confessio Amantis." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 119-126. Print.

----------. "Gower and Ovid: Pygmalion and the (Dis)illusion of the Word." Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop Wetherbee. Ed. Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2009. 363-380. Print.

Burrow, J. A. "Sinning against Love in Confessio Amantis." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 217-229. Print.

Collette, Carolyn P. "Topical and Tropological Gower: Invoking Armenia in the Confessio Amantis." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 35-45. Print.

Conti, Aidan. "The Gem-Bearing Serpents of the Trinity Homilies: An Analogue for Gower’s Confessio Amantis." Modern Philology 106 (2009): 109-116. Print.

Davenport, W. A. "Dreams in Gower’s Confessio Amantis." English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 91.4 (2010): 374-397. Print.

Dean, James M. "The Hag Transformed: ‘The Tale of Florent,’ Ethical Choice, and Female Desire in Late Medieval England." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 143-158. Print.

Donavin, Georgiana. "’When reson torneth into rage‘: Violence in Book III of the Confessio Amantis." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 216-234. Print.

Edwards, Robert R. "Gower's Poetics of the Literal." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 59-73. Print.

Feinstein, Sandy. "Longevity and the Loathly Ladies in Three Medieval Romances." Arthuriana 21.3 (2011): 23-48. Print.

Fox, Hilary E. "’Min herte is growen into ston‘: Ethics and Activity in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis." Comitatus 36 (2005): 15-40. Print.

Ganim, John. "Cosmopolitanism and Medievalism". Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22.1 (2010): 5-27. Print.

Gastle, Brian. "Gower's Business: Artistic Production of Cultural Capital and the Tale of Florent." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 182-95. Print.

Gertz, SunHee Kim. "Beginnings without End: The Prologue to John Gower’s Confessio Amantis." Life in Language: Studies in Honour of Wolfgang Kuhlwein, Ed. Andreas J. Schuth. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher, 2005. 329-52. Print.

Green, Richard F. "Florent's mariage sous la potence." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 254-262. Print.

Gruenler, Curtis.  "How to Read Like a Fool:  Riddle Contests and the Banquet of Conscience in Piers Plowman.  Speculum 85.3 (July, 2010): 592-630. Print.

Kendall, Elliot. "Chamberlain Danger: The Social Meaning of Love Allegory in the Confessio Amantis." Medium Ævum 76 (2007): 49-69. Print.

----------. "Saving History: Gower's Apocalyptic and the New Arion." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 46-58. Print.

Knapp, Ethan. "The Place of Egypt in Gower's Confessio Amantis." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 26-34. Print.

Leff, Amanda M. "Writing, Gender, and Power in Gower’s Confessio Amantis." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 20.1 (2008): 28-47. Print.

Lindebloom, Wim. "Rethinking the Recensions of the Confessio Amantis." Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 40.2 (2009): 319-348. Print.

Martin, Joanna M. "Responses to the Frame Narrative of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Scottish Literature." Review of English Studies 60.3 (2009): 561-577. Print.

Mitchell, J. Allan. "Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Natural Morality, and Vernacular Ethics." John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Urban. 135-53. Print.

----------. "Teaching Gower's Liminal Literature and Critical Theory." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 110-118. Print.

Nicholson, Peter. "Irony v. Paradox in the Confessio Amantis." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 206-16. Print.

Nowlin, Steele. "Narratives of Incest and Incestuous Narratives: Memory, Process, and the Confessio Amantis's ‘Middel Weie.’" Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35 (2005):  217-244. Print.

O'Callaghan, Tamara F. "The Fifteen Stars, Stones, and Herbs: Book VII of the Confessio Amantis and its Afterlife." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 139-56. Print.

Palmer, James M. "Bodily and Spiritual Healing through Conversation and Storytelling: Genius as Physician and Confessor in the Confessio Amantis." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 53-58. Print.

Peck, Russell A. "Folklore and Powerful Women in Gower’s ‘Tale of Florent.’" The English “Loathly Lady” Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs. Ed. S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. 100-46. Print.

----------. "John Gower: Reader, Editor, and Geometrician ‘for Engelondes sake.’" John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Urban. 11-37. Print.

----------. "Teaching the Confessio Amantis as a Humanist Document of the First English Renaissance." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 42-52. Print.

Salisbury, Eve. "Promiscuous Contexts: Gower’s Wife, Prostitution, and the Confessio Amantis." John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Urban. 219-240. Print.

Schieberle, Misty. "’Thing which a man mai noght areche‘: Women and Counsel in Gower’s Confessio Amantis." Chaucer Review 42 (2007): 91-109. Print.

Shuffelton, George. "Romance, Popular Style and the Confessio Amantis: Conflict or Evasion?" John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 74-84. Print.

Simpson, James. "Bonjour Paresse: Literary Waste and Recycling in Book 4 of Gower’s Confessio Amantis." The Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture. Proceedings of the British Academy 151 (2007): 257-84. Print.

Tarantino, Elisabetta. "The Dante Anecdote in Gower's Confessio Amantis, Book VII." Chaucer Review 39.4 (2005): 420-435. Print.

Taylor, A. B. "John Gower and ‘Pyramus and Thisbe.’" Notes & Queries n.s. 54 (2007): 282-83. Print.

Taylor, Karla. "Inside Out in Gower's Republic of Letters." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 169-181. Print.

Wetherbee, Winthrop. "Rome, Troy, and Culture in the Confessio Amantis." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 20-42. Print.

Windeatt, Barry. "The Art of Swooning in Middle English." Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann. Ed. Christopher Cannon and Maura Nolan. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011. 211-230. Print.

Yeager, R. F. "The Politics of Strengthe and Vois in Gower’s Loathly Lady Tale." The English “Loathly Lady” Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs. Ed. S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007. 42-72. Print.

-----------. "Teaching ’The Tale of Constance‘ in Context." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 159-171. Print.

Zarins, Kim. "Rich Words: Gower's Rime Riche in Dramatic Action." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 239-53. Print.

"In Praise of Peace"

Barrington, Candace. "John Gower's Legal Advocacy and ’In Praise of Peace‘." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 112-125. Print.

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Gower and Other Medieval Authors

Allen, Elizabeth. False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Print.

Bertolet, Craig E. "Gower and The Canterbury Tales: The Enticement to Fraud." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 136-142. Print.

Bowers, John M. "Rival Poets: Gower's Confessio and Chaucer's Legend of Good Women." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 276-87. Print.

Butterfield, Ardis. The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.

Chewning, Susannah M. "Chaucer by Default? Difficult Choices and Teaching the Sophomore British Literature Survey." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 188-193. Print.

Chatterjee, M. "Rivalry, Rape and Manhood: Gower and Chaucer." Violence Against Women. Jaipur: Aavishkar, 2006. 103-17. Print.

Davidson, Mary Catherine. Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Print.

Dimmick, Jeremy. "Gower, Chaucer, and the Art of Repentance in Robert Greene’s Vision." Review of English Studies 57 (2006): 456-73. Print.

Galloway, Andrew. "Gower’s Quarrel with Chaucer, and the Origins of Bourgeois Didacticism in Fourteenth-Century London Poetry." Caliope’s Classroom: Studies in Didactic Poetry from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ed. Annette Harder, Alasdair A. MacDonald, and Gerrit J. Reinink. Paris/Leuven/Dudley MA: Peeters, 2007. 245-67. Print.

Gasse, Rosanne. "The Fierce Achilles in Chaucer, Gower, and the Gawain Poet." Sir Gawain and the Classical Tradition: Essays on the Ancient Antecedents. Ed. E. L. Risden. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 121-34. Print.

Higl, Andrew: "Printing Power: Selling Lydgate, Gower, and Chaucer." Essay in Medieval Studies 23 (2006): 57-77. Print.

Kinch, Ashby. "’To thence what was in hir wille‘: A Female Reading Context for the Findern Anthology." Neophilologus 91 (2007): 729-44. Print.

Koff, Leonard. "Gower before Chaucer: Narrative and Ethics in 'The Tale of Thereus.‘" Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 83-90. Print.

Lindeboom, B. W. "’Venus’ Owne Clerk‘: Chaucer’s Debt to the ’Confessio Amantis.‘" New York: Rodopi, 2007. Print.

Merrilees, Brian and Heather Pagan. "John Barton, John Gower, and Others: Variation in Late Anglo-French." Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c.1100-c.1500. Ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Woodbridge, England: York Medieval, 2009. 118-134. Print.

Meyer-Lee, Robert J. Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 61. Cambridge, Eng. and New York: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.

Mitchell, J. Allan. "John Gower and John Lydgate: Forms and Norms of Rhetorical Culture." A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350-c. 1500. Ed. Peter Brown. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 569-84. Print.

Nolan, Maura. "Lydgate’s Literary History: Chaucer, Gower, and Canacee." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 59-92. Print.

Petrina, Alessandra. "’My Maisteris Dere‘: The Acknowledgement of Authority in ’The Kingis Quair.‘" Scottish Studies Review 7 (2006): 9-23. Print.

van Dijk, Conrad. "Giving Each His Due: Langland, Gower, and the Question of Equity." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 108 (2009): 310-35. Print.

Wetherbee, Winthrop. "Gower Teaching Ovid and the Classics." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 172-179. Print.

Yeager, R. F. "The Poetry of John Gower." A Companion to Medieval Poetry. Ed. Corinne Saunders. Singapore: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010. 476-495. Print.

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Kings, Kingship, and Noble Patrons

Breen, Katharine. "A different kind of book for Richard's sake: MS Bodley 581 as ethical handbook." Chaucer Review 45.2 (2010): 119-168. Print.

Carlson, David R. "Gower on Henry IV’s Rule: The Endings of the Cronica Tripertita and Its Texts." Traditio 62 (2007): 207-36. Print.

----------. "Gower pia bita bibit and Henry IV in 1399 November." English Studies 89 (2008): 377-84. Print.

----------. "English Poetry, July-October 1399, and Lancastrian Crime. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007): 375-418.

Coleman, Joyce. "’A bok for king Richardes sake‘: Royal Patronage, the Confessio, and the Legend of Good Women." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 104-123. Print.

----------. "The Flower, the Leaf, and Philippa of Lancaster." The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception. Ed. Carolyn P. Collette. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006. 33-58. Print.

Giancarlo, Matthew. Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.

Jones, Terry. "Was Richard II A Tyrant? Richard's use of the books of rules for princes." Fourteenth Century England 5 (2008): 130-160. Print.

Kennedy, Kathleen Erin. Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Print.

Kendall, Elliot. Lordship and Literature: John Gower and the Politics of the Great Household. Oxford: Clarendon, 2008. Print.

Kobayashi, Yoshiko. "Principis Umbra: Kingship, Justice, and Pity in John Gower’s Poetry." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 71-103. Print.

Lightsey, Scott. "Social Class in the Classroom: Gower's Estates Poetry." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 36-41. Print.

Nuttall, Jenni. The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship: Literature, Language and Politics in Late Medieval England. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 67. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Print.

McKinley, Kathryn. "Lessons for a King from John Gower’s Confessio Amantis." Metamorphoses: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ed. Allison Keith and Stephen Rupp. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2007. 107-128. Print.

Olsson, Kurt. "Composing the King, 1390-91: Gower’s Ricardian Rhetoric." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2009): 141-173. Print.

Passmore, S. Elizabeth. "Teaching Gower in the Medieval Survey Class: Historical and Cultural Contexts and the Court of Richard II." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 194-201. Print.

Rayner, Samantha. Images of Kingship in Chaucer and His Ricardian Contemporaries. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2008. Print.

Saul, Nigel. "John Gower: Prophet or Turncoat?" John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 85-97. Print.

Sobecki, Sebastian L. "Educating Richard: Incest, Marriage, and (Political) Consent in Gower’s ‘Tale of Apollonius.’" Anglia 125 (2007): 205-16. Print.

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Language, Rhetoric, and the Medieval Classroom

Butterfield, Ardis. "Articulating the Author: Gower and the French Vernacular Codex." The Yearbook of English Studies 33, Medieval and Early Modern Miscellanies and Anthologies (2003): 80-96. Print.

Carlson, David. "A Rhyme Distribution Chronology of John Gower’s Latin Poetry." Studies in Philology 104 (2007): 15-55. Print.

Coley, David K.  The Wheel of Language:  Representing Speech in Middle English Poetry, 1377-1422.  Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse UP, 2012. Print.

Copeland, Rita and Ineke Sluiter, eds. Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. Print.

Donavin, Georgiana. "Hearing Gower's Rhetoric." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 77-82. Print.

----------. "Rhetorical Gower: Aristotelianism in the Confessio Amantisi’s Treatment of ‘Rethorique.’" John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Urban. 155-73. Print.

Echard, Sian. "Gower's Triple Tongue (1): Teaching Across Gower's Languages." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 91-99. Print.

Galloway, Andrew.  "Middle English as a Foreign Language, to ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ (Gower, Langland, and the Author of The Life of St. Margaret)." Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 14 (2007): 89-102. Print.

Kanno, Masahiko. Studies in John Gower, with Special Reference to His Words. Toyko: Eihosha, 2007. Print.

Machan, Tim William. "Medieval Multilingualism and Gower's Literary Practice." Studies in Philology 103.1 (Winter 2006): 1-25. Print.

Pouzet, Jean-Pascal. "Augustinian Canons and Their Insular French Books in Medieval England: Towards an Assessment." Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England c. 1100-c.1500. Ed. Wogan-Browne, et al. York: York Medieval Press, 2009. 266-277. Print.

Staley, Lynn. Languages of Power in the Age of Richard II. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 2005. Print.

Yeager, R. F. "John Gower’s French and his Readers." Language and Culture in Medieval  Britain:  the French of England, c. 1100-c.1500. Ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Carolyn Collette, Maryanne Kowaleski, Linne Mooney, Ad Putter, and David Trotter. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2009. 135-45. Print.

----------. "Politics and the French Language in England During the Hundred Years’ War: The Case of John Gower." Inscribing the Hundred Years’ War in French and English Cultures. Ed. Denise N. Baker. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 127-57. Print.

Zieman, Katherine. Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2008. Print.

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Iberian Studies

Bullón-Fernández, María. "Translating Women, Translating Texts: Gower’s ‘Tale of Tereus’ and the Castilian and Portuguese Translations of the Confessio Amantis." John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Urban. 109-32. Print.

Coleman, Joyce. "The Flower, the Leaf, and Philippa of Lancaster." In The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception. Ed. Carolyn P. Collette. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006. 33-58. Print.

Cortijo Ocana, Antonio. "El libro VI de la Confessio Amantis." eHumanista 8 (2007): 38-72. Web. 8 February, 2011.

----------. "La traduccion de Juan de Cuenca: El minuscule oficio del traductor." Traduccion y humanism: Panorama de un desarrollo cultural. Ed. Roxana Recio. Soira, Spain: Portico, 2007. 83-129. Print.

----------. "Medea a la 'Nigromantesa': A Propósito de los Hechos de Medea en Rojas y Gower." Revista dew Literature Mediaval 20 (2008): 31-58. Print.

Faccon, Manuela. Foruna de la Confessio Amantis en la Peninsula Iberica: el testimonio portugues. Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2011. Print.

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Manuscripts and Scribes

Bahr, Arthur W. "Reading Codicological Form in John Gower's Trentham Manuscript." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 (2011): 219-62.

Galloway, Andrew. "Gower’s Confessio Amantis, the Prick of Conscience, and the History of the Latin Gloss in Early English Literature." John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Urban. 39-70. Print.

Driver, Martha. "Women Readers and Pierpont Morgan MS M.126." John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Urban. 71-107. Print.

Horobin, Simon, and Daniel W. Mosser. "Scribe D’s SW Midland Roots: A Reconsideration." Neuphilogiosche Mitteilungen 106 (2005): 289-305. Print.

Mooney, Linne R. "Locating Scribal Activity in Late-Medieval London." Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England. Ed. Margaret Connolly and Linne R. Mooney. York: York Medieval Press, 2008. 183-204. Print.

Pouzet, Jean-Pascal. "Southwark Gower: Augustinian Agencies in Gower's Manuscripts and Texts--Some Prolegomena." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 11-25. Print.

Sargent, Michael G. "What Do These Numbers Mean? A Textual Critic's Observations on Some Patterns of Middle English Manuscript Transmission." Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England. Ed. Connolly and Mooney. 205-44. Print.

Thaisen, Jacob. "The Trinity Gower D Scribe's Two Canterbury Tales Manuscripts Revisited." Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England. Ed. Connolly and Mooney. 41-60. Print.

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Miscellaneous Issues in Late Medieval Literature

Benson, C. David. "Some Poets’ Tours of Medieval London: Varieties of Literary Urban Experience." Essays in Medieval Studies 24 (2007): 1-20. Print.

Bertolet, Craig E. "Fraud, Division, and Lies: John Gower and London." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 43-70. Print.

----------. "’The slyeste of alle‘: The Lombard Problem in John Gower’s London." John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts. Urban. 197-218. Print.

Boboc, Andrea. "Teaching Gower and the Law." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 59-66. Print.

Cawsey, Kathy. "Disorienting Orientalism: Finding Saracens in Strange Places in Late Medieval English Manuscripts." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 21.4 (2009): 380-397. Print.

Coleman, Joyce. "Teaching Gower Aloud." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 67-76. Print.

Galloway, Andrew. "Reassessing Gower's Dream-Visions." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 288-303. Print.

----------. "The Economy of Need in Late Medieval English Literature." Viator 40 (2009): 309-31. Print.

Ganim, John M. "Gower, Liminality, and the Politics of Space." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 19 (2007): 90-116. Print.

Gastle, Brian W. "Electronic Resources." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 26-30. Print.

Kelemen, Erick. "Learning Gower by Editing Gower." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 104-109. Print.

Kruger, Steven F. "Gower’s Mediterranean." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 3-19. Print.

----------. "Postcolonial/Queer: Teaching Gower Using Recent Critical Theory." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 127-135. Print.

Kuczynski, Michael P. "Gower’s Virgil." On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium. Yeager. 161-87. Print.

Lightsey, Scott. Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.

Lipton, Emma. Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval Literature. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2007. Print.

Masciandaro, Nicola. The Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2007. Print.

Minnis, Alastair. "Standardizing Lay Culture: Secularity in French and English Literature of the Fourteenth Century." The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England. Ed. Ursula Schaefer. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2006. 43-60. Print.

Nicholson, Peter. "The Instructor's Library." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 17-25. Print.

Pearsall, Derek. "Teaching Gower's Reception: A Poet for All Ages." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 31-35. Print.

Peck, Russell A. "Texts for Teaching." Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower. Yeager and Gastle. 7-16. Print.

Williams, Deanne. "Gower’s Monster." Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures. Ed. Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005. 127-50. Print.

Yeager, Isabella Neale. "Did Gower Love His Wife? And What Has It to Do with the Poetry?" Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies 73 (2010): 67-86. Print.

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Pericles

Driver, Martha. "Conjuring Gower in Pericles." John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation & Tradition. Dutton, Hines, and Yeager. 315-26. Print.

Dynmkowski, Christine. "’Ancient [and Modern] Gower‘: Presenting Shakespeare’s Pericles." The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre. Ed. Philip Butterworth. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007. 235-64. Print.

Jones, Kelly. "’The Quick and the Dead‘: Performing the Poet Gower in Pericles." Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings. Ed. Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 201-14. Print.

Johnston, Andrew James. "Sailing the Seas of Literary History: Gower, Chaucer, and the Problem of Incest in Shakespeare's Pericles." Poetica: Zeitschrift Fur Sprach-und Literaturewissenschaft, 41.3-4 (2009): 381-407. Print.

Miyashita, Yayoi. "Gower, the Chorus, as a Fictional Character in Pericles." The Hokkaido University Annual Report on Cultural Sciences 117 (2005): 89-108. Print.

Segall, Kreg. "Gower and the Incestuous Father: The Intimate Author in Pericles." Explorations in Renaissance Culture 34.2 (2008): 248-268. Print.

Sprang, Felix C. H. "’Never Fortune Did Play a Subtler Game‘: The Creation of 'Medieval' Narratives in Pericles and the Two Noble Kinsmen." European Journal of English Studies 15.2 (2011): 115-128. Print.

Yeager, R. F. "Shakespeare as Medievalist: What it Means for Performing Pericles." Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings. Ed. Martha W. Driver and Sid Ray. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 215-231. Print.

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Dissertations

Batkie, Stephanie L. "Sentenced to hard labor: Vernacular transformations in the late fourteenth century." PhD thesis, University of Michigan, 2009.

Irvin, Matthew William. "’In Propria Persona‘: Artifice, Politics and Property in John Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'." PhD thesis, Duke University, 2009.

Lim, Gary. "Familiar estrangements: Reading family in Middle English romance." PhD thesis, City University of New York, 2009.

Meyers, Alyssa. "Telling Time: Temporality and Narrative in Late Medieval English Literature." PhD thesis. Columbia University, 2011.

Newman, Jonathan M. "Satire of counsel, counsel of satire: Representing advisory relations in later medieval literature." PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 2008.

Pangilinan, Maria Cristina Santos. "Poetry and London learning: Chaucer, Gower, Usk, Langland and Hoccleve." PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2009.

Peebles, Katie Lynn. "Medievalism's inheritance: Early inventions of medieval pasts." PhD thesis, Indiana University, 2010.

Urban, Misty Rae. "Monstrous women in Middle English romance." PhD thesis, Columbia University, 2008.

van Dyk, Conrad J. "The Exemplum as Legal Case: John Gower and the Limits of the Law." PhD thesis, University of Western Ontario, 2007.

Williams, Jon Kenneth. "Languages of kingship in Ricardian Britain." PhD thesis, Columbia University, 2009.

Zarins, Kimberly. "Writing the Literary Zodiac: Division, Unity, and Power in John Gower's Poetics." PhD thesis, Cornell University, 2009.

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