Romance rewritten : the evolution of Middle English romance : a tribute to Helen Cooper / edited by Elizabeth Archibald, Megan G. Leitch, Corinne Saunders.

New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation of medieval romance.

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Other Authors: Archibald, Elizabeth, 1951- (Editor), Leitch, Megan G. (Editor), Saunders, Corinne J., 1963- (Editor), Cooper, Helen, 1947- (honouree.)
Other title:Evolution of Middle English romance
Tribute to Helen Cooper
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2018.
Series:Studies in medieval romance ; [22]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Middle English romance: the motifs and the critics / Megan G. Leitch
  • I. Romance disruptions. 1. Medieval romance mischief / Neil Cartlidge
  • 2. Rewrtiting chivalric encounters: cultural anxieties and social critique in the fourteenth century / Marcel Elias
  • 3. Malory's comedy / Christopher Cannon
  • II. Romance and narrative strategies. 4. Beginning with the ending: narrative techniques and their significance in Chaucer's Knight's Tale / Jill Mann
  • 5. The riddle of 'Apollonius': 'a book for Kin Richardes sake' / R.F. Yeager
  • 6. Malory and the post-Vulgate cycle / Elizabeth Archibald
  • 7. Towards a gestural lexicon of medieval English romance / Barry Windeatt
  • III. Romance and spiritual priorities. 8. Giving freely in Sir Cleges: the economy of salvation and the gift of romance / Marco Nievergelt
  • 9. From magic to miracle: reframing Chevalere Assigne / Miriam Edlich-Muth
  • 10. Lifting the veil: voices, visions, and the destiny in Malory's Morte Darthur / Corinne Saunders
  • IV. Late romance. 11. The intelligence of The Court of Love / Ad Putter
  • 12. The Squirt of Low Degree and the penumbra of romance narrative in the early sixteenth century / Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards
  • 13. Contested chivalry: youth at war in Walter Scott and Charlotte M. Yonge / Andrew Lynch.