Melissa Furrow

Expectations of Romance

The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781843842071
• ISBN-10: 1843842076
• Artikelnr.: 26900913

Inhaltsangabe

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