A companion to romance : from classical to contemporary / edited by Corinne Saunders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 27.

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Romances, English--History and criticism.

Romances, English.

Romanticism--England.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (582 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively esc

Contents:

A COMPANION TO ROMANCE From Classical to Contemporary; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1. Ancient Romance; 2. Insular Beginnings: Anglo-Norman Romance; 3. The Popular English Metrical Romances; 4. Arthurian Romance; 5. Chaucer's Romances; 6. Malory and the Early Prose Romances; 7. Gendering Prose Romance in Renaissance England; 8. Sidney and Spenser; 9. Shakespeare's Romances; 10. Chapbooks and Penny Histories; 11. The Faerie Queene and Eighteenth-century Spenserianism; 12. "Gothic" Romance: Its Origins and Cultural Functions

13. Women's Gothic Romance: Writers, Readers, and the Pleasures of the Form14. Paradise and Cotton-mill: Rereading Eighteenth-century; 15. "Inconsistent Rhapsodies": Samuel Richardson and the Politics of Romance; 16. Romance and the Romantic Novel: Sir Walter Scott; 17. Poetry of the Romantic Period: Coleridge and Keats; 18. Victorian Romance: Tennyson; 19. Victorian Romance: Medievalism; 20. Romance and Victorian Autobiography: Margaret Oliphant, Edmund Gosse, and John Ruskin's "needle to the north"; 21. Victorian Romance: Romance and Mystery; 22. Nineteenth-century Adventure and Fantasy

23. Into the Twentieth Century: Imperial Romance from Haggard to Buchan24. America and Romance; 25. Myth, Legend, and Romance in Yeats, Pound, and Eliot; 26. Twentieth-century Arthurian Romance; 27. Romance in Fantasy Through the Twentieth Century; 28. Quest Romance in Science Fiction; 29. Between Worlds: Iris Murdoch, A. S. Byatt, and Romance; 30. Popular Romance and its Readers; Epilogue: Into the Twenty-first Century; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611312664

9781782684879

1782684875

9781281312662

1281312665

9781405165136

1405165138

9780470999172

0470999179

9780470999165

0470999160

OCLC:

184983756