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Noble and joyous histories : English romances, 1375-1650

Title: Noble and joyous histories : English romances, 1375-1650 / edited by Eiléan Ní Cuilleanáin & J.D. Pheifer.
Publication: Dublin : Irish Academic Press, [1993], ©1993.

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292 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This book covers the many branches of the romance tradition in the central period of English literature, from the major alliterative works to the Renaissance and beyond. It includes essays on Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Wife of Bath's Tale, on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, on Malory's Morte Darthur, on burlesque romance, on Spencer's Faerie Queene, on Sidney's Arcadia, and on romance epic in the seventeenth century.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: European Tradition and English Romances / Eilean Ni Cuilleanain and J.D. Pheifer -- Time Structure in the Narrative Framework of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Piotr Sadowski -- Wonder and Boethian Justice in the Knight's Tale / Helen Cooney -- Gentle Men, Lufly and Loothly Ladies, Aghlich Maysters: Characterization in The Wife's Tale and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Cathalin B. Folks -- King Arthur at the Crossroads to Rome / Lesley Johnson -- Burlesque Romance and the Bourgeoisie / David Scott-MacNab -- Author, Scribe, and Reader in Malory: The Case of Harleuse and Peryne / P.J.C. Field -- Malory's Lancelot / J.D. Pheifer -- Sidney's Political Odyssey: Anti-tyranny Themes, Sidney's Travels, and Arcadia / Eilean Ni Chuilleanain -- Prince Arthur's 'Vertuous and Gentle Discipline' / Richard A. McCabe -- The Meaning of Spenser's Chastity as the Fairest of Virtues / Gerald Morgan --
The Development of Romance-Epic Themes after Spenser's The Faerie Queene / Marion Wynne-Davies.

ISBN

0716523795

LCCN

93164381

OCLC

ocm28856151

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Columbia University Libraries