UID:
almafu_9959327775902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiii, 565 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781405165136
,
1405165138
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0631232710
,
9780631232711
,
9781405167277
,
1405167270
,
9780470999165
,
0470999160
,
9780470999172
,
0470999179
Serie:
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 27
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Ancient romance / Elizabeth Archibald -- Insular beginnings : Anglo-Norman romance / Judith Weiss -- The 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 -- The 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 -- Victorian romance : Tennyson / Leonée 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.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Companion to romance. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2004 ISBN 0631232710
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780631232711
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470999172
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470999172
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470999172
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470999172
