Bibliography of Gower Studies, 2017 to 2021

by Georgiana Donavin and William Hughes

Primary Texts

Gower, John. Delphi Collected Poetical Works of John Gower. (Illustrated). Delphi Classics, 2017.

—–. Vox Clamantis Book 5. Trans. Robert J. Meindl. The Gower Project Translation Wiki, 2018. Accessed 05 Nov. 2020.

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Textbooks

Meindl, Robert J. and Mark T. Riley, editors and translators. A Latin Reader for the Study of Early English Law: with Introductions, Selections, Translations, Notes & Glossary. Sophron Editor, 2017, pp. 585-605.

New Media

Donavin, Georgiana and Eve Salisbury, editors. Accessus: A Journal of Premodern Literature and New Media, vols. 2-4, 2014-20, n.p. ScholarWorks. Western Michigan University. Accessed 28 Oct. 2020.

Hsy, Jonathan. “Gower and theory: old books, new matters.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana, Brian Gastle, and R.F. Yeager, eds. Oxford and New York, Routledge, 2017, pp.9-20.

Salisbury, Eve. “Gower in China.” The Gower Project, 11 Feb. 2017. Accessed 26 Oct. 2020.

Wu, Xiaoling. Review of “Selected Translation of the Confessio Amantis,” by Shen Hong, The Gower Project, 12 Feb 2018. Accessed 27 Oct. 2020.

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Secondary Scholarship

Anthologies

Chewning, Susannah Mary, editor. Studies in the Age of Gower:  A Festschrift in Honour of R.F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, 2020.

Driver, Martha and Derek Pearsall, editors. John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. D.S. Brewer, 2020.

Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, editors. John Gower: Others and the Self. D.S. Brewer, 2017.

Rigby, Stephen H. and Siân Echard, editors. Historians on John Gower. D.S. Brewer, 2019.

Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, editors. The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower. Taylor and Francis, 2017.

Encyclopedias

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Monographs

Edwards, Robert R. Invention and Authorship in Medieval England. Ohio State University Press, 2017.

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On Gower’s French Works

Yeager, R. F. “Twenty-First Century Gower:  The Theology of Marriage in John Gower’s Traitiė and the Turn toward French.”  The French of Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, edited by Thelma Fenster and Carolyn P. Collette. D.S. Brewer, 2017.

Cinkante Balades

Nicholson, Peter. “The French Works: The Ballades.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 312-320.

––––––. “Writing the Cinkante Balades.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 306-328.

Mirour de l’Omme

Bertolet, Craig E. “The French Works: Mirour de l’Omme.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 321-327.

Bullón-Fernández, María. “Gower’s Queer Poetics in the Mirour de l’Omme.” Access, vol. 6, Fall 2020.

Yeager, Robert F. “The ‘Strophe d’Hélinand’ and John Gower.” Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies 36, no 2, 2018, pp. 115-33.

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On Gower’s Latin Works

Meindl, Robert J. “The Latin Works.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 341-354.

Vox Clamantis

Batkie, Stephanie L. “The Sound of My Voice: Aurality and Credible Faith in the Vox Clamantis.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 32-49.

Bennett, Michael. “John Gower, Squire of Kent, the Peasants’ Revolt, and the Visio Anglie.” Chaucer Reviews, 2018, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 258-282.

Irvin, Matthew W. “’Noght withoute peine’: Chastity, Complaint, and Lucrece’s Vox Clamantis.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 50-72.

—- “Gower’s Speculum Indicis: Judicial Corruption in Book VI of the Vox Clamantis.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 260-282.

Novak, Sarah. “Braying Peasants and the Poet as Prophet: Gower and the People in the Vox Clamantis.” Études Anglaises 66, 2013, pp. 311-22. Rpt. in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 264 (Detroit: Gale, 2017), pp. 279-85.

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On Gower’s Middle English Works

Kobayashi, Yoshiko. “English Works.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 328-340.

Confessio Amantis:

Batkie, Stephanie L. “Loving Confession in the Confessio Amantis.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2017, vol. 39, pp. 99-128.

Bennett, Michael. “John Gower, Squire of Kent, the Peasants’ Revolt, and the Visio Anglie.” Chaucer Review 53, 2018, pp. 258-82.

Burke, Linda. “The Girl’s Confession of Love: A Bilingual Edition and Translation of the Fifteenth-Century La Confession de la Belle Fille, also Known as La Confession d’Amours, with Introduction and Notes.” Mediaevalistik 30, 2018 for 2017, pp. 177-224.

Carlson, David Richard. “Gower’s Amans and the Curricular Maximianus.” Studia Neophilologica, 2017, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 67-80.

Flannery, Mary C. “Gower’s Blushing Bird, Philomela’s Transforming Face.” Postmedieval, Spring 2017, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 35-50.

Gastle, Brian W. “’The Lucre of Marchandie’: Poet, Patron, and Payment in Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 283-294.

Nolan, Maura. “Sensation and the Plain Style in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 111-140.

Parkin, Gabrielle. “Hidden Matter in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 295-305.

Peck, Russell A. “The Materiality of Cognition in Reading, Staging, and Regulation of Brain and Heart Activities in Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 7-31.

—- “Covetousness in Book 5 of Confessio Amantis: A Medieval Precursor to Neoliberalism.” Accessus, vol. 4, no. 2, 2018, article 2, pp. 1-36.

Stone, Zachary E.. “‘Betwen tuo stoles’: The Western Schism and the English Poetry of John Gower (1378-1417)*.” New Medieval Literatures 19, 2019, pp. 205-43.

—- “Covetousness in Book V of Confessio Amantis: A Medieval Precursor to Neoliberalism.” Accessus 4 (2018).

Yeager, R. F. “Amans the Memorious.” Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean, edited by Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, University of Delaware Press, 2018, pp. 91-103.

—- “‘The Riddle of Appollonius’: A Bok for King Richardes Sake.” Romance Rewritten: The Evolution of Middle English Romance, edited by Elizabeth Archibald, Megan G. Leitch, and Corinne Saunders, D.S. Brewer, 2018.

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Gower and Other Medieval Authors

Gower and Chaucer:

Bahr, Arthur. “Birdsong, Love, and the House of Lancaster: Gower Reforms Chaucer.” Chaucer and the Subversion of Form, ed. Thomas A. Prendergrast and Jessica Rosenfeld, Cambridge University Press, May 2018, pp. 165-181.

Biggs, Frederick M. Chaucer’s Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales. Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2017.

Blatt, Heather. “Corrective Reading: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and John Lydgate’s Troy Book.” Participatory Reading in Late Medieval England, Manchester University Press, 2018, pp. 27-61.

Burrow, John. “‘Pronomination’ in the Poetry of Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton.” Medium Aevum 87, 2018, pp. 142-52.

Cole, Andrew. “John Gower Copies Geoffrey Chaucer.” Chaucer Review, 2017, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 46-65.

Gastle, Brian. “Gower and Chaucer.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 296-311.

Ladd, Roger. “Selling Satire: Gower, Chaucer, and the End of the Estates.” Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. James M. Dean, Grey House, 2017, pp. 81-96.

Sobecki, Sebastian. “A Southwark Tale: Gower, the 1381 Poll Tax, and Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.” Speculum, July 2017, vol. 92, no. 3, pp. 630-660.

Spearing, A.C. “Narration in Two Versions of ‘Virginius and ‘Virginia’.” Chaucer Review 54, 2019, pp. 1-34.

Taylor, Karla. “Reading Faces in Gower and Chaucer.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 73-90.

Gower and Lydgate:

Nuttall, Jenni. “Lydgate and the Lenvoy.” Exemplaria, 2018, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 45-48.

Perry, R.D. “Lydgate’s Virtual Coteries: Chaucer’s Family and Gower’s Pacifism in the Fifteenth Century.” Speculum, vol. 93, no. 3, July 2018, pp. 669-698.

Scanlon, Larry. “Gower, Lydgate, and Incest.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 156-182.

Gower and Machaut:

Beer, Lewis. “Polarized Debates, Ambivalent Judgments: The Jugement Behaigne and the Confessio Amantis.” Machaut’s Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond, ed. R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, University of Florida Press, 2017, pp. 217-239.

Burke, Linda. “Bohemian Gower: Confessio Amantis, Queen Anne, and Machaut’s Judgment Poems.” Machaut’s Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond, ed. R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, University of Florida Press, 2017, pp. 192-216.

McGerr, Rosemarie. “The Judge as Reader and the Reader as Judge: Literary and Legal Judgment in Dante, Machaut, and Gower.” Machaut’s Legacy: The Judgment Poetry Tradition in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond, ed. R. Barton Palmer and Burt Kimmelman, University of Florida Press, 2017, pp. 192-216.

Gower and Others:

Kobayashi, Yoshiko. “Letters of the Old Age: The Advocacy of Peace in the Works of John Gower and Phillippe de Mézières.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 204-222.

Peck, Russell A. and R.F. Yeager, eds. John Gower: Others and the Self. Publications of the John Gower Society XI. Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 2017.

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Iberian Studies

Pascual-Argente, Clara. “Iberian Gower.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 210-221.

Peréz-Fernández, Tamara. “From England to Iberia: The Transmission of Marginal Elements in the Iberian Translations of Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” Text, Transmission, and Transformation in the European Middle Ages, 1000-1500, ed. Carrie Griffin and Emer Purcell, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018, pp. 119-40.

Sáez-Hidalgo, Ana. “Gower in Early Modern Spanish Libraries: The Missing Link.” John Gower: Others and the Self, edited by Peck, Russell A. and R. F. Yeager, D.S. Brewer, June 2017, pp. 329-344.

—-. “Iberian Manuscripts of Gower’s Works.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 110-116.

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Manuscripts and Scribes

Batkie, Stephanie L. “Gower’s Latin Manuscripts.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 102-109.

Bertolet, Craig E. “Gower’s French Manuscripts.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 97-101.

Coleman, Joyce. “Illuminations in Gower’s Manuscripts.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 117-131.

Drimmer, Sonja. “The Disorder of Operations: Illuminators, Scribes, and John Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” Lias, vol. 44, no. 1, 2017, pp. 5-28.

Fredell, John. “John Gower’s Manuscripts in Middle English.” The Routledge Research Companion to John Gower, edited by Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, Brian Gastle, and R. F. Yeager, Routledge, 2017, pp. 91-96.

Pearsall, Derek. “The Tribulations of Scribes.” Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and Their Texts: Essays in Honour of Ralph Hanna, ed. Simon Horobin and Aditi Nafde, Brepols, 2017, pp. 1-17.

Urban, Malte. “Gower out of Time and Place.” Postmedieval: vol. 9, no. 3, fall 2018, pp. 303-317.

Watson, Sarah Wilma. “Another Woman Reader of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis: Jacquetta of Luxembourg and Cambridge, Pembroke College MS 307.” Journal of the Early Book Society 21, 2018, pp. 159-70.

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Donavin, Georgiana. “John Gower’s Magical Rhetoric.” Accessus, vol. 6, is. 2, 2020, https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/accessus/vol6/iss2/2.

Weiskott, Eric. Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.

Gastle, Brian W. “The Constraints of Justice and Gower’s ‘Lawyerly Habit of Mind’.” Studies in the Age of Gower: A Festschrift in Honour of Robert F. Yeager, editor Susannah Mary Chewing, Boydell and Brewer, 28 April 2020, pg. 203-216.

Hole, Jennifer. “Expediency versus Ethics: The Problem of Bribery in Late Medieval England.” Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2020, pp. 113–131.

Ni, Yun. “Between History and Prophecy: Ovidian Metamorphoses and the 1381 Revolt in Gower’s Visio Anglie.” Chaucer Review, vol. 56, 2021, pp. 33-53.

Smith, Jeremy. “On Scriptae: Correlating Spelling and Script in Late Middle English.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 80, Jan. 2020, pp. 13–27.