New essays on aspects of Gower's poetry, viewed through the lens of the self and beyond.

Introduction - Robert F. Yeager and Russell Peck
The Materiality of Cognition in Reading, Staging, and Regulation of Brain and Heart Activities in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Russell Peck
The Sound of My Voice: Aurality and Credible Faith in the Vox Clamantis - Stephanie L. Batkie
"Noght withoute peine": Chastity, Complaint, and Lucrece's Vox Clamantis - Matthew W. Irvin
Reading Faces in Gower and Chaucer - Karla Taylor
Gower and Mortality: The Ends of Storytelling - Helen Cooper
Sensation and the Plain Style in John Gower's Confessio Amantis - Maura Nolan
Violence without Warning: Sympathetic Villains and Gower's Crafting of Ovidian Narrative - Kim Zarins
Gower, Lydgate, and Incest - Larry Scanlon
Gower's Jews - Robert F. Yeager
Letters of Old Age: The Advocacy of Peace in the Works of John Gower and Philippe de Mézières - Yoshiko Kobayashi
Gower's Governmentality: Revisiting John Gower as a Constitutional Thinker and Regiminal Writer - Matthew Giancarlo
Gower's Speculum Iudicis: Judicial Corruption in Book VI of the Vox Clamantis - Robert J. Meindl
"The lucre of marchandie": Poet, Patron, and Payment in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Brian Gastle
Hidden Matter in John Gower's Confessio Amantis - Gabrielle Parkin
Writing the Cinkante Balades - Peter Nicholson
Gower in Early Modern Spanish Libraries: The Missing Link - Ana Saez-Hidalgo
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