Megan Leitch

Romancing Treason

The Literature of the Wars of Roses

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Produktbeschreibung

Romancing Treason examines English literature written during the Wars of the Roses. Focusing on the the theme of treason, Megan Leitch suggests that the idea of a literature of the Wars of the Roses offers a way of understanding an understudied period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780198724599
• ISBN-10: 0198724594
• Artikelnr.: 47865983

Autorenporträt

Megan G. Leitch is Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on Middle English romance, Arthurian and Ricardian literature, and the fifteenth century. Her work on these topics has recently appeared in Medium Aevum, The Chaucer Review, and Arthurian Literature, and in several collections of essays.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: 'that horrible and falsly forsworne traitor N': Discourses and
Mentalities of Treason c.1437 - c.1497
* 3: . 'For treason walketh wonder wyde': Treachery and Romance during
the Wars of the Roses
* 4: Speaking (of) Treason in Malory's Morte Darthur: Fifteenth-Century
Insular Romance and Chronicle
* 5: Thinking Twice about Treason in Caxton's Prose Romances: Proper
Chivalric Conduct and the English Printing Press
* 6: Post Script: Writing Of/Off Treason After 1500
* Appendix