04709nam 2200505 a 450 991045396550332120210107002000.01-281-92523-397866119252390-19-153027-11-4356-9790-1(CKB)1000000000720927(StDuBDS)AH24080267(MiAaPQ)EBC3052657(EXLCZ)99100000000072092720071008e20082004 fy| 0engur|||||||||||The English romance in time[electronic resource] transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare /Helen CooperOxford Oxford University Press20081 online resource (xiii, 542 p.) Originally published: 2004.0-19-953258-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: 'Enter, pursued with a bear'; 1. Quest and Pilgrimage: 'The adventure that God shall send me'; 2. Providence and the Sea: 'No tackle, sail nor mast'; 3. Magic that Doesn't Work; 4. Fairy Monarch, Fairy Mistresses: 'I am of ane other countree'; 5. Desirable Desire: 'I am wholly given unto thee'; 6. Women on Trial; 7. Restoring the Rightful Heir: 'If that which was lost be not found'; 8. Unhappy Endings: 'The most accursed, unhappy, and evil fortuned'; Appendix; BibliographyThis is an exploration of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Helen Cooper traces romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the 12th century to the early 17th century.The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a continuous story, since the same romances that constituted the largest and most sophisticated body of secular fiction in the Middle Ages went on to enjoy a new and vibrant popularity at all social levels in black-letter prints as the pulp fiction of the Tudor age. This embedded culture was reworked for political and Reformation propaganda and for the 'writing of England', as well as providing a generous reservoir of good stories and dramatic plots. The different ways in which the same texts were read over several centuries, or the same motifs shifted meaning as understanding and usage altered, provide a revealing and sensitive measure of historical and cultural change. The book accordingly looks at those processes of change as well as at how the motifs themselves work, to offer a historical semantics of the language of romance conventions. It also looks at how politics and romance intersect - the point where romance comes true. The historicizing of the study of literature is belatedly leading to a wider recognition that the early modern world is built on medieval foundations. This book explores both the foundations and the building. Similarly, generic theory, which previously tended to operate on transhistorical assumptions, is now acknowledging that genre interacts crucially with cultural context - with changing audiences and ideologies and means of dissemination. The generation into which Spenser and Shakespeare were born was the last to be brought up on a wide range of medieval romances in their original forms, and they could therefore exploit their generic codings in new texts aimed at both elite and popular audiences. Romance may since then have lost much of its cultural centrality, but the universal appeal of these same stories has continued to fuel later works from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to C.S. Lewis and Tolkien.Romances, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismLiteratureeflchElectronic books.lcshRomances, EnglishHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Literature.821.03309Cooper Helen1947-923426StDuBDSStDuBDSUkPrAHLSBOOK9910453965503321The English romance in time2072263UNINA