A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance

A comprehensive guide to the medieval popular romance, one of the age's most important literary forms.

List of contents

Introduction - Raluca Radulescu and Cory Rushton
Popular Romance: The Material and the Problems - Rosalind Field
Genre and Classification - Raluca Radulescu
The Manuscripts of Popular Romance - Maldwyn Mills and Gillian E Rogers
Printed Romance in the Sixteenth Century - Jennifer Fellows
Middle English Popular Romance and National Identity - Thomas Howard Crofts and Robert Rouse
Gender and Identity in the Popular Romance - Joanne A Charbonneau and Desiree Cromwell
The Metres and Stanza Forms of Popular Romance - Ad Putter
Orality and Performance - Karl Reichl
Popular Romances and Young Readers - Phillipa Hardman
Modern and Academic Reception of the Popular Romance - Cory Rushton
Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Raluca L. Radulescu
• Assisted by: Raluca Radulescu (Editor), Raluca L Radulescu (Editor), Cory James Rushton (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2009
• EAN: 9781843841920
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-192-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 242 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies