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Pulp fictions of medieval England : essays in popular romance / edited by Nicola McDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romances, English--History and criticism.
- Romances, English.
- English fiction--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages) : digital file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the complex and conflicted world of medieval England.
- Contents:
- 1. Incorporation in the Siege of Melayne / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
- 2. The twin demons of aristocratic society in Sir Gowther / Alcuin Blamires
- 3. A, A and B: coding same-sex union in Amis and Amiloun / Sheila Delany
- 4. Sir Degrevant: what lovers want / Arlyn Diamond
- 5. Putting the pulp into fiction: the lump-child and its parents in The King of Tars / Jane Gilbert
- 6. Eating people and the alimentary logic of Richard Cœur de Lion / Nicola McDonald
- 7. The Siege of Jerusalem and recuperative readings / Elisa Narin van Court
- 8. Story line and story shape in Sir Percyvell of Gales and Chrétien de Troyes's Conte du Graal / Ad Putter
- 9 Temporary virginity and the everyday body: Le Bone Florence of Rome and bourgeois self-making / Felicity Riddy
- 10. Romancing the East: Greeks and Saracens in Guy of Warwick / Rebecca Wilcox
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610734306
- 9781526137593
- 1526137593
- 9781847795571
- 1847795579
- 9781781700563
- 1781700567
- 9781280734304
- 1280734302
- 9781847790989
- 1847790984
- OCLC:
- 666980469
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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