LEADER 04458nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910820232203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611312664 010 $a9781782684879 010 $a1782684875 010 $a9781281312662 010 $a1281312665 010 $a9781405165136 010 $a1405165138 010 $a9780470999172 010 $a0470999179 010 $a9780470999165 010 $a0470999160 035 $a(CKB)1000000000411839 035 $a(EBL)350883 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000330023 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11279655 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000330023 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10318263 035 $a(PQKB)10940747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL350883 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10240351 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL131266 035 $a(OCoLC)184983756 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC350883 035 $a(Perlego)2749171 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000411839 100 $a20040227d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to romance $efrom classical to contemporary /$fedited by Corinne Saunders 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMalden, MA $cBlackwell$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (582 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v27 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781405167277 311 08$a1405167270 311 08$a9780631232711 311 08$a0631232710 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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 327 $a13. 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 327 $a23. 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 330 $aRomance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively esc 410 0$aBlackwell companions to literature and culture ;$v27. 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRomances, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRomanticism$zEngland 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRomances, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRomanticism 676 $a820.9 701 $aSaunders$b Corinne J.$f1963-$0845852 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820232203321 996 $aA companion to romance$92255068 997 $aUNINA