04458nam 2200793 a 450 991082023220332120200520144314.097866113126649781782684879178268487597812813126621281312665978140516513614051651389780470999172047099917997804709991650470999160(CKB)1000000000411839(EBL)350883(SSID)ssj0000330023(PQKBManifestationID)11279655(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000330023(PQKBWorkID)10318263(PQKB)10940747(Au-PeEL)EBL350883(CaPaEBR)ebr10240351(CaONFJC)MIL131266(OCoLC)184983756(MiAaPQ)EBC350883(Perlego)2749171(EXLCZ)99100000000041183920040227d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to romance from classical to contemporary /edited by Corinne Saunders1st ed.Malden, MA Blackwell20041 online resource (582 p.)Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;27Description based upon print version of record.9781405167277 1405167270 9780631232711 0631232710 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Functions13. 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 Fantasy23. 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; IndexRomance 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 escBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;27.English literatureHistory and criticismRomances, EnglishHistory and criticismRomanticismEnglandEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Romances, EnglishHistory and criticism.Romanticism820.9Saunders Corinne J.1963-845852MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820232203321A companion to romance2255068UNINA