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Preface. "Decidedly not the national language"
Introduction. The Clericus Class, Underemployment, and the Golden Age of Middle English Poetry

Part I. Clerical Proletarians and the Resurgence of English Poetry: Vocational Crisis and Self-Representation
Chapter One. Precedents for Clerical Crisis and Authorial Intervention in Early Middle English
Chapter Two. Poetry of Vocational Crisis in Langland's Apologia and the Early Langlandian Tradition
Chapter Three. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition I: Hoccleve's Missed Opportunity and Self-Portraiture in Vocational Crisis
Chapter Four. Career Disappointment and Langlandian Tradition II: John Audelay as the Voice for a Lost Generation

Part II. The Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Proletariat Resurgent and English Verse
Chapter Five. Cathedral Songs: Lyric Genres of the Choral Service Class and the Resurgent English
Chapter Six. Satire, Drama, and Censorship: Submerged Literary Circles at the Cathedral
Chapter Seven. The Clerical Proletariat and Public Genres of the Cathedral World: St. Erkenwald as a St. Paul's Text

Conclusion. The Poet as Public Intellectual: Achievements and Characteristics of Proletarian Writers

Notes
Index
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Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn

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