| Description |
1 online resource (582 pages) |
| Series |
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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| Contents |
A COMPANION TO ROMANCE From Classical to Contemporary; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1. Ancient Romance; 2. Insular Beginnings: Anglo-Norman Romance; 3. The Popular English Metrical Romances; 4. Arthurian Romance; 5. Chaucer's Romances; 6. Malory and the Early Prose Romances; 7. Gendering Prose Romance in Renaissance England; 8. Sidney and Spenser; 9. Shakespeare's Romances; 10. Chapbooks and Penny Histories; 11. The Faerie Queene and Eighteenth-century Spenserianism; 12. "Gothic" Romance: Its Origins and Cultural Functions |
| Summary |
Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Comprising 30 essays written by leading authorities in the field, it considers the historical and literary development of the genre from its classical origins to the present day. The focus is on English literature, although this is placed within the larger context of perceptions of romance. The book incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance, particularly romance's special relation to women readers. It chal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Romances, English -- History and criticism
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Romanticism -- England
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English literature.
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Romances, English.
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Romanticism.
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780470999165 |
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0470999160 |
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