Four essays on romance / edited by Herschel Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stuart Curran-Joseph Wittreich Milton Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Baker, Herschel, 1914-1990.

Modern Language Association of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Curran, Stuart A. (honoree) (Milton Collection copy)

Wittreich, Joseph Anthony (donor) (Milton Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi, 87 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1971.

Summary:

In his Introduction Mr.Baker, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University, writes, "Although Romance, the dominant genre of secular literature throughout the later Middle Ages, has prompted floods of scholarship and speculation, it still bristles with unanswered problems of origin, development, and even definition." Helaine Newstead, Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, contributes "Malory and Romance"; A. Bartlett Giamatti, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University, "Spenser: From Magic to Miracle"; Norman Rabkin, Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, "The Holy Sinner and the Confidence Man: Illusion in Shakespeare's Romances"; and Barbara K. Lewaiski, Professor of English at Brown University, "Milton: Revaluations of Romance."

Contents:

Malory and romance / Helaine Newstead

Spenser : from magic to miracle / A. Bartlett Giamatti

The holy sinner and the confidence man : illusion in Shakespeare's romances / Norman Rabkin

Milton : revaluations of romance / Barbara K. Lewalski.

Notes:

Papers read at the 1969 meeting of the Modern Language Association as topic for English Section I.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Milton Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph A. Wittreich in honor of Stuart A. Curran.

Penn Libraries Milton Collection copy has some ms. underlines, annotations and marginal marks in pencil.

ISBN:

0674314751

OCLC:

156129