Romance

List of contents

General Editor’s Preface; 1. History and Definition 2. Medieval to Renaissance Romance: History and Myth 3. Cervantes to the Gothic Novel 4. Romanticism and Post- Romantic Romance 5. Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index

About the author

Gillian Beer

Summary

First published in 1970, this work provides an overview of the Romance from the medieval period to the 20th century and tracks how the genre has changed with time, including its interaction with other forms of literature such as gothic novels, realism and science fiction. It explores a myriad of writers including Chaucer, Sidney, Tennyson, Shelley, Meredith and Keats and analyses key texts such as Don Quixote by Cervantes and Kubla Khan by Coleridge.
This book will be of interest to those studying Romantic literature.

Product details

• Authors: Beer, Gillian Beer, Beer Gillian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 10.07.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781138229136
• ISBN: 978-1-138-22913-6
• Pages: 94
• Series: The Critical Idiom Reissued; The Critical Idiom Reissued
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Medieval Literature, gothic fiction analysis, Romanticism studies, literary genre evolution, Realism in literature, history of romance genre development, Science fiction influence