Description:
The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower reviews the most current scholarship on the late medieval poet and opens doors purposefully to research areas of the future. It is an essential resource for scholars and students of Gower and of Middle English literature, history, and culture generally.
Review Quotes:
"This impressive work is the most comprehensive monograph on Gower up to date."
- Amanda Roi-Marin, University of Cambridge, UK
"The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower is a rich contribution to the field of Gower studies, one whose scope is laudably ambitious. Among the collection's strengths are its efforts to foreground the trilingual, transnational, and manuscript contexts of the po-et's work and legacy. These chapters offer an invitation to new conversations and suggest av-enues for future research. Gower studies, as this collection witnesses, continues to grow, transform, and respond to contemporary scholarly concerns; the poet's multilingual legacy, now as much as ever, occupies a meaningful place in our field in the midst of a mutable, di-vided, and ever-renewing world."
- Sarah V. Torres, University of Virginia, USA, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies