Saunders A Companion to Romance

From Classical to Contemporary
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-99916-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 584 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficultto define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the manypermutations of romance throughout the ages.

* * Considers the literary and historical development of theromance genre from its classical origins to the present day

* Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romanceand of romance's special relation to women readers

* Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on differentperiods and sub-genres

* Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusivelyescapist

* Draws on a wide range of specific and influential literaryexamples

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saunders, Corinne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
1. Ancient Romance 10
Elizabeth Archibald
2. Insular Beginnings: Anglo-Norman Romance 26
Judith Weiss
3. The Popular English Metrical Romances 45
Derek Brewer
4. Arthurian Romance 65
W. R. J. Barron
5. Chaucer's Romances 85
Corinne Saunders
6. Malory and the Early Prose Romances 104
Helen Cooper
7. Gendering Prose Romance in Renaissance England 121
Lori Humphrey Newcomb
8. Sidney and Spenser 140
Andrew King
9. Shakespeare's Romances 160
David Fuller
10. Chapbooks and Penny Histories 177
John Simons
11. The Faerie Queene and Eighteenth-century Spenserianism197
David Fairer
12. ''Gothic'' Romance: Its Origins andCultural Functions 216
Jerrold E. Hogle
13. Women's Gothic Romance: Writers, Readers, and thePleasures of the Form 233
Lisa Vargo
14. Paradise and Cotton-mill: Rereading Eighteenth-centuryRomance 251
Clive Probyn
15. ''Inconsistent Rhapsodies'': SamuelRichardson and the Politics of Romance 269
Fiona Price
16. Romance and the Romantic Novel: Sir Walter Scott 287
Fiona Robertson
17. Poetry of the Romantic Period: Coleridge and Keats 305
Michael O'Neill
18. Victorian Romance: Tennyson 321
Leonée Ormond
19. Victorian Romance: Medievalism 341
Richard Cronin
20. Romance and Victorian Autobiography: Margaret Oliphant,Edmund Gosse, and John Ruskin's ''needle to thenorth'' 360
Francis O'Gorman
21. Victorian Romance: Romance and Mystery 375
Andrew Sanders
22. Nineteenth-century Adventure and Fantasy: James Morier,George Meredith, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Louis Stevenson389
Robert Fraser
23. Into the Twentieth Century: Imperial Romance from Haggard toBuchan 406
Susan Jones
24. America and Romance 424
Ulrika Maude
25. Myth, Legend, and Romance in Yeats, Pound, and Eliot438
Edward Larrissy
26. Twentieth-century Arthurian Romance 454
Raymond H. Thompson
27. Romance in Fantasy Through the Twentieth Century 472
Richard Mathews
28. Quest Romance in Science Fiction 488
Kathryn Hume
29. Between Worlds: Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt, and Romance502
Clare Morgan
30. Popular Romance and its Readers 521
Lynne Pearce
Epilogue: Into the Twenty-first Century 539
Corinne Saunders
Index 542

Über Autor(innen)

Corinne Saunders is a Reader in Medieval Literature at the University of Durham. Her previous publications include The Forest of Medieval Romance (1993), Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (2001) and Chaucer (2001) in the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series.