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Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. It considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day. It incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers. It comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres. It challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively escapist. It draws on a wide range of specific and influential literary examples.
| ISBN | 0631232710 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780631232711
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 1230 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | | Series ISSN | 27 | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture | | Publication date | 21 Sep 2004 | | Height (mm) | 258 | | Library of Congress | PR149 | | Width (mm) | 186 | | DEWEY | 820.9 | | Spine width (mm) | 42 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 584 | |
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| 1 | | Ancient romance by Elizabeth Archibald | | 10 | | 2 | | Insular beginnings : Anglo-Norman Romance by Judith Weiss | | 26 | | 3 | | The popular English metrical romances by Derek Brewer | | 45 | | 4 | | Arthurian romance by W. R. J. Barron | | 65 | | 5 | | Chaucer's romances by Corinne J. Saunders | | 85 | | 6 | | Malory and the early prose romances by Helen Cooper | | 104 | | 7 | | Gendering prose romance in Renaissance England by Lori Humphrey-Newcomb | | 121 | | 8 | | Sidney and Spenser by Andrew King | | 140 | | 9 | | Shakespeare's romances by David Fuller | | 160 | | 10 | | Chapbooks and Penny Histories by John Simons | | 177 | | 11 | | The Faerie Queene and eighteenth-century Spenserianism by David Fairer | | 197 | | 12 | | 'Gothic' romance : its origins and cultural functions by Jerrold E. Hogle | | 216 | | 13 | | Women's Gothic romance : writers, readers, and the pleasures of the form by Lisa Vargo | | 233 | | 14 | | Paradise and cotton-mill : re-reading eighteenth-century romance by Clive Probyn | | 251 | | 15 | | "Inconsistent Rhapsodies" : Samuel Richardson and the politics of romance by Fiona Price | | 269 | | 16 | | Romance and the romantic novel : Sir Walter Scott by Fiona Robertson | | 287 | | 17 | | Poetry of the romantic period : Coleridge and Keats by Michael O'Neill | | 305 | | 18 | | Victorian Romance : Tennyson by Leonee Ormond | | 321 | | 19 | | Victorian romance : medievalism by Richard Cronin | | 341 | | 20 | | Romance and Victorian autobiography : Magaret Oliphant, Edmund Grosse and John Ruskin's 'needle to the north' by Francis O'Gorman | | 360 | | 21 | | Victorian romance : romance and mystery by Andrew Sanders | | 375 | | | More... | | |
Acknowledging the difficulty of defining "romance," Saunders and the contributors collectively produce a volume that offers a more comprehensive survey of the literature including its historical, national, and generic varieties than have previous standard works on the subject Some of the essays e.g., Helen Cooper s "Malory and the Early Prose Romances" and Richard Cronin s "Victorian Romance: Medievalism" are exemplary in the quality of their writing, scholarship, and critical perception Highly recommended. Choice "... It would be worth acquiring for an academic humanities collection and, from my own experience, would be particulary useful for English literature students at undergraduate and postgraduate level." Reference Review  Be the first to write a customer review
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