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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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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Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact, only lightly rubbed at edges. Library bookplate on front free endpaper; no other library markings. Clean and unmarked contents mostly. Sound and serviceable overall. Publisher's note: Annotation The English Romance in Timeis a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores 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 down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of the Tudor age. This embedded culture was reworked for political and Reformation propaganda and for the 'writing of England', as well as providing a generous reservoir of good stories and dramatic plots. The different ways in which the same texts were read over several centuries, or the same motifs shifted meaning as understanding and usage altered, provide a revealing and sensitive measure of historical and cultural change. The book accordingly looks at those processes of change as well as at how the motifs themselves work, to offer a historical semantics of the language of romance conventions. It also looks at how politics and romance intersect-the point where romance comes true. The historicizing of the study of literature is belatedly leading to a wider recognition that the early modern world is built on medieval foundations. This book explores both the foundations and the building. Similarly, generic theory, which previously tended to operate on transhistorical assumptions, is now acknowledging that genre interacts crucially with cultural context-with changing audiences and ideologies and means of dissemination. The generation into which Spenser and Shakespeare were born was the last to be brought up on a wide range of medieval romances in their original forms, and they could therefore exploit their generic codings in new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences. Romance may since then have lost much of its cultural centrality, but the universal appeal of these same stories has continued to fuel later works from Bunyan'sPilgrim's Progressto C.S. Lewis and Tolkien. Size: 22.4 x 14.7 x 3.6 cm. 560 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Romances, English--Themes, motives; English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; ISBN: 0199248869. ISBN/EAN: 9780199248865. Add. Inventory No: 241010SHY0243932.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Black hardcover with bright gilt lettering and trim on spine, top of spine slightly bumped. Dust jacket shows slight creasing and scuffing. Binding tight, pages white and clean, previous owner indication on inside front cover is the only marking. 542 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or overseas shipment.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 560 p. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
