Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Texts
Preface
Introduction: Social Gower
Part I. Language
1. Gower's Babel Tower: Language Choice and the Grammar of Sex
2. Writing Like a Man: Rhetoric and Geneaology
Part II. Sex
3. Transgressive Genders and Subversive Sexualities
4. Sexual Chaos and Sexual Sin
Part III. Politics
5. Tyranny, Reform, and Self-Government
6. Oedipus, Apollonius, and Richard II
Epilogue: Ethical Gower
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Gower, John, 1325?-1408, Confessio amantis, Politics and literature Great Britain History To 1500, Gower, John, 1325?-1408 Political and social views, Gower, John, 1325?-1408 Language, Gower, John, 1325?-1408 Ethics, Ethics, Medieval, in literature, Courtly love in literature, Politics in literature, Sex in literature