Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising: Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS F irst and foremost, I thank The Gower Project, most notably Georgiana Donavin and Eve Salisbury, for helping to make another version of Gower studies possible. I am grateful to fellow members of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship over the past two decades, for their comradery and for their work to make medieval studies a more compelling field. In the Department of English at Brock University, I have the good fortune of teaching among a very collegial group of faculty members, and I thank them all for their support, especially Elizabeth M. Sauer. Thanks also go to Brock historian Tami J. Friedman for her support. Regarding Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising, I thank Sheila Delany for reading an early draft of chapter 4 and Andrew Prescott for reading the first half of chapter 3. I am grateful to the two anonymous reviewers at Pennsylvania State University Press for their helpful feedback and suggestions, which made the manuscript stronger. I thank Kendra Boileau, the editor in chief at Pennsylvania State University Press, and Stephanie Lang, editorial assistant, for their immediate enthusiasm for the project and for their kindness and generosity. I appreciate Brock University’s Council for Research in the Social Sciences, for providing funds for the final stages of manuscript preparation. My most profound thanks go to Mark Lynn Anderson, for his boundless love and support, for his tireless enthusiasm for this book, and for two decades of wonderful conversations about historiography, institutional power, political economy, classism, knowledge and power, and the politics of culture. ...