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Melissa Furrow

Expectations of Romance - The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England

English · Hardback

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Description

What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.

List of contents

The Problem with Romance
The Name and the Genre
Genres, Language, and Literary History
The Example of Tristram and Isolde
Making Free with the Truth
Coda: The Reception of a Genre
Appendix: Romances and the Male Regular Clergy by Order
Bibliography

Product details

Authors	Melissa Furrow
Publisher	Boydell & Brewer

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	19.11.2009

EAN	9781843842071
ISBN	978-1-84384-207-1
No. of pages	274
Dimensions	161 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
Weight	748 g
Series	Studies in Medieval Romance
Subject	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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