Helen Cooper

The English Romance in Time Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Helen cooper traces romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century to the early seventeenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9780199532582
• ISBN-10: 0199532583
• Artikelnr.: 23524652

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Enter, pursued with a bear'
1.: Quest and Pilgrimage: 'The adventure that God shall send me'
2.: Providence and the Sea: 'No tackle, sail nor mast'
3.: Magic that Doesn't Work
4.: Fairy Monarch, Fairy Mistresses: 'I am of ane other countree'
5.: Desirable Desire: 'I am wholly given unto thee'
6.: Women on Trial
7.: Restoring the Rightful Heir: 'If that which was lost be not found'
8.: Unhappy Endings: 'The most accursed, unhappy, and evil fortuned'
Appendix
Bibliography