Susannah Mary Chewning 
Studies in the Age of Gower 
A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager

The essays in this volume pay tribute to the distinguished career of Professor R.F. Yeager. Appropriately for one who has done so much to advance scholarship and critical debate on this poet, they focus on John Gower. The approaches taken range widely, from poetics to palaeography, from close critical interpretation to ecocriticism, offering important new readings of Gower and his age. Particular topics addressed include Gower’s revisions to the
Tale of Rosiphilee; theological and philosophical positions within Gower’s work; the violence of manuscript images of
Confessio Amantis; and the views of a fellow poet on Gower – Edward Thomas.


SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING is Senior Professor of English, Union County College. Contributors: Stephanie Batkie, Susannah Mary Chewning, Martha Driver, A.S.G. Edwards, Andrew Galloway, Brian Gastle, Richard Firth Green, Natalie Grinnell, Matthew Irvin, Michael Kuczynski, Roger Ladd, Peter Nicholson, Derek Pearsall, Russell A. Peck, David Roberts, William Rogers

Table of Content

Introduction – Susannah Chewning

Edward Thomas on Gower – A S G Edwards

The Sutherland Fragment of Gower’s
Confessio Amantis – Derek Pearsall

Incarnational Making in
Vox Clamantis II – Stephanie L. Batkie and Matthew W. Irvin

Patriarchy, Family and Law in Gower’s
Confessio Amantis – Russell Peck

Gower’s Ballades for Women – Peter Nicholson

John Gower and the Artists of M. 126 – Martha W. Driver

Gower in Striped Sleeves:
Mirour de l’Omme as Gower’s Early Humanism – Andrew Galloway

What’s in a Name? History, Genre, and Political Speech in Gower’s
Chronica Tripertita – David A. Roberts

Studies in Gower’s Age: Ciceronian Echoes in
Confessio Amantis – William Rogers

Gower’s Light: the Ecology of ‘De Lucis scrutino’ – Natalie Grinnell

Gower, Chaucer, and the ‘Treuthe of Prestehode’ – Michael Kuczynski

‘To Hear an Old Man Sing’: Apollonius, Pericles, and the Age of Gower – Roger A. Ladd

The Constraints of Justice in Gower’s ‘Lawyerly Habit of Mind’ – Brian Gastle

A Poet at Work: John Gower’s Revisions to the
Tale of Rosiphilee – Richard Firth Green

A Personal Tribute to Robert F. Yeager – Susannah Chewning

Bibliography of R. F. Yeager’s Writings

General Bibliography

About the author

SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING is Senior Professor of English, Union County College.