The Romance of the Rose and the Making of Fourteenth-Century English Literature

by Knox and Philip Knox

The Romance of the Rose had a transformative effect on the multilingual literary culture of fourteenth-century England, leaving more material evidence for late medieval English-speaking readers than any other vernacular literary work from mainland Europe. This book examines its decisive effect on English literature of the fourteenth century, and new literary experiments it provoked from writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192847171
• ISBN13: 9780192847171
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 5.8"