| Description |
xiii, 565 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 27
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ancient romance / Elizabeth Archibald -- Insular beginnings : Anglo-Norman romance / Judith Weiss -- Popular English metrical romances / Derek Brewer -- Arthurian romance / W.R.J. Barron -- Chaucer's romances / Corinne Saunders -- Malory and the early prose romances / Helen Cooper -- Gendering prose romance in Renaissance England / Lori Humphrey Newcomb -- Sidney and Spenser / Andrew King -- Shakespeare's romances / David Fuller -- Chapbooks and penny histories / John Simons -- Faerie queene and eighteenth-century Spenserianism / David Fairer -- "Gothic" romance : its origins and cultural functions / Jerrold E. Hogle -- Women's Gothic romance : writers, readers, and the pleasures of the form / Lisa Vargo -- Paradise and cotton-mill : rereading eighteenth-century romance / Clive Probyn -- "Inconsistent rhapsodies" : Samuel Richardson and the politics of romance / Fiona Price -- Romance and the romantic novel : Sir Walter Scott / Fiona Robertson -- Poetry of the romantic period : Coleridge and Keats / Michael O'Neill. |
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Victorian romance : Tennyson / Leonee Ormond -- Victorian romance : medievalism / Richard Cronin -- Romance and Victorian autobiography : Magaret Oliphant, Edmund Gosse and John Ruskin's "needle to the north" / Francis O'Gorman -- Victorian romance : romance and mystery / Andrew Sanders -- Nineteenth-century adventure and fantasy : James Morier, George Meredith, Lewis Carroll and Robert Louis Stevenson / Robert Fraser -- Into the twentieth century : imperial romance from Haggard to Buchan / Susan Jones -- America and romance / Ulrika Maude -- Myth, legend and romance in Yeats, Pound, and Eliot / Edward Larrissy -- Twentieth-century Arthurian romance / Raymond H. Thompson -- Romance in fantasy through the twentieth century / Richard Mathews -- Quest romance in science fiction / Kathryn Hume -- Between worlds : Iris Murdoch, A.S. Byatt and romance / Clare Morgan -- Popular romance and its readers / Lynne Pearce. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Romances, English -- History and criticism.
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Romanticism -- England.
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| Added Author |
Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-
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| ISBN |
0631232710 (acid-free paper) |
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9780631232711 (acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 26172746X |
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YDXCP 1999662 |
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NZ1 8324942 |
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