| Description |
1 online resource (x, 254 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Reassessing late medieval romance -- 'Récits d'armes et/ou d'amour': love, prowess, and chivalric masculinity -- Youthful folly in boys and girls: idyllic romance and the perils of adolescence in Pierre de Provence and Paris et Vienne -- Husbands and wives in marital romance: the trials of male adultery, bigamy, and repudiation -- Incestuous desire versus marital love: rewriting the tale of the 'Maiden without hands' in versions of the Manekine and the Roman du Comte d'Anjou -- Romance in a moralizing culture |
| Summary |
This study of a little-known area of French literary history focuses on a group of 16 romances produced in the century from 1390, many commissioned at the court of Burgundy. The text examines how these works represented men in their roles as warriors, lovers, husbands, and fathers, and women as maidens, daughters, wives, and mothers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
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Romances -- History and criticism
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Sex role in literature.
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Ethics in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Desire in literature
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Ethics in literature
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French literature
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Romances
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Sex role in literature
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Bellettrie.
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Frans.
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Liefde.
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Seksuele aantrekking.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191564956 |
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0191564958 |
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9780199554140 |
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0199554145 |
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9780191721069 |
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0191721069 |
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